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From: markb@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Mark Biggar)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Byte order (retitled)
Message-ID: <2741@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Apr-86 12:25:53 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  8 12:25:53 1986
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Organization: System Development Corporation R&D, Santa Monica
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In article <7046@cca.UUCP> g-rh@cca.UUCP (Richard Harter) writes:
>However we have a second constraint, that comparison be valid whether
>a word is considered as a character string or as a number.

Where in the world did this constraint come from.  This has to be one of
most blatant violations of the spirit of data abstraction and information
hiding I have ever seen.  You don't require this if the types being
considered are signed/unsigned or int/float, why should you if the types
are char-string/int.

Mark Biggar
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