Semantics of Equals (was: Re: Question about checks for min and
max values)
Jay R. Ashworth
jra at baylink.com
Mon Jul 25 14:14:45 PDT 2005
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 05:06:32PM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> > Maybe the smiley is the key, but that only works because they're exactly
> > identical--assuming it works. One should be using strcasecmp() for
> > strings.
>
> I guess it depends on your definition of "works".
>
> The output is "They are not equal." Yes, strcmp() will say that they
> compare equal, but "==" will not.
>
> On the other hand, given:
>
> int num1 = atoi("0");
> int num2 = atoi("");
>
> the expression:
>
> num1 == num2
>
> will be true.
>
> :-)
Ok, now; no playing around with known syntactical breakage in the
competeing language to make your points... when there are civilians
watching. :-)
Cheers,
-- jra
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