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From: wmb@MITCH.ENG.SUN.COM
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Subject: Strings
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Date: 22 Feb 91 20:20:37 GMT
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> Mitch, Has the ANSI committee looked at the fstrings package?  it is
> a reasonably complete strings package complete with documentation and
> validation test suite.

I don't know.  A lot of the strings discussions happened before I joined
the committee.  Since then, there has been some amount of discussion
about various string words, mostly inspired by George Shaw.
Unfortunately, in this area, a clear consensus never seems to emerge.
Most votes related to string words tend to be fairly evenly split.

I suspect that if fstrings were proposed, the minimalists would scream
bloody murder.

Sigh.

Mitch Bradley, wmb@Eng.Sun.COM