Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!eagle!icdoc!ivax!cdsm From: cdsm@ivax.doc.ic.ac.uk (Chris Moss) Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog Subject: Re: Strings Message-ID: <242@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> Date: 25 Mar 88 11:28:35 GMT References: <241@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> Sender: news@doc.ic.ac.uk Reply-To: cdsm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Chris Moss) Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK. Lines: 10 In article <241@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> cdsm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Chris Moss) writes: >Thus the main difference with the present systems would be: > 2. write(0'a) would print out 0'a. > 3. write("abc") or write([0'a,0'b,0'c]) would print out as "abc". I meant, of course, writeq. write would output a and abc respectively (and I can't put any quotes in that sentence!) Chris Moss. .