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From: scrl@otter.hpl.hp.com (Simon Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: Please Explain Difference Between $A And 'A'
Message-ID: <2610005@otter.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 8 Apr 91 09:35:12 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
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I think I would argue that $A and 'A' are NOT semantically identical objects
(although let's not start a debate about what `semantics' means).  The
point is that they are distinct.  One is an `atom', the other is a collection
containing an `atom'.  Thus it doesn't make much sense to compare them in
the way you are trying to do.

Simon Lewis,
HP Labs, Bristol, UK.