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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: String Concatination
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Date: 15 May 91 02:23:55 GMT
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Tom Schneider writes
> In article <1991May12.223939.14987@wam.umd.edu> mikec@wam.umd.edu
> (Michael D. Callaghan) writes:
> 
>                        Maybe someone else has already devised a simple
> 'concat' function?

If you do (and lots of us have), please don't name it `concat', even
though that would be a nice name for it.  There's already a PostScript
operator named `concat', and other programs that don't use bind (smiley
for those following the bind thread:-) might invoke your procedure
by mistake.

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