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From: Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com>
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Subject: Re: TeX and Pascal [was Re: The joy of FORTRAN]
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On 29/09/2024 00:06, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> All OO languages are in fact procedural.
> The opposite of “procedural” is “functional”, not “OO”.

I need to do some reading. My understanding of the difference is clouded 
by the fact that a subroutine is a procedure, but becomes a function if 
it delivers a return value. (Yes I am that old).

> So what syntax *do* you want to use to join strings?

S3 = string_join(S1, S2) .. or .. S3 = S1.S2 .. or even S1 .= S2
... although the latter probably is hiding some ugly copying and 
reallocation behind the scenes.

On Sun, 29 Sep 2024 07:50:14 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> I found that out in JavaScript where a comparison between a string  "1"
>> and a number 1 failed on IE but worked on Firefox.

> That’s a misfeature of JavaScript, not a fault of OO generally. For
> example, Python doesn’t have that misfeature. And neither does C++, while
> we’re at it

Yeah, I like PERL a whole lot better than JavaScript. PERL has different 
operators for string compare and numeric compare. So if $S1 is "1" and 
$I1 is the number 1, you can test $I1 == $S1 (which casts the numeric 
string into a number) or $I1 eq $S1 (which casts the string into a 
number). If $S1 = " 1", the numeric compare is true, but the string 
compare fails.