- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:08:10 +0200
- To: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Cc: www-international@w3.org
* John Cowan wrote: >Bjoern Hoehrmann scripsit: > >> Two things are identical if you cannot tell them apart. Two things are >> merely equivalent in some context if the differences between them are >> of no concern in that context. > >This distinction is not effective in programming. It is one of the main characteristics of "programming" that you, as the programmer, get to decide what distinctions you want to make. I do not see how this is relevant here. In your example: > char *x = "abc"; > char *y = strdup(x) You have different "objects"; those objects are not strings, they are on a higher level. Having different objects but identical strings is not a contradiction. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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