Semantics of Equals

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 02:38:38PM -0500, Bill Akers wrote:
> > Equals means equals.  It doesn't mean "equals through the last
> > character position of the shorter string".
> 
> Your argument would then be that mathematically '5' does not equal 
> '5.00'?

There are two separate issues at hand here.

Even in filePro, "5" eq "5.00" as long as both variables are numeric in
type.

String equality in filePro is a different matter, and the topic of most
of my screed, although I admit I wasn't clear enough in my phrasing.

filePro would also say that those two variables were eq if they were
both strings -- and Mark and I assert that it should not: they're of
different lengths, and thereby inherently not equal.

Cheers,
-- jra
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