Re: The naive test for equality
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 13:41:55 GMT
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"VC" <boston103_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Paul" <paul_at_test.com> wrote in message
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> > By "representation" I mean the actual symbols used to convey the idea of
> > a "value", and they may be several of these representations for one
value.
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> I do not understand this.
I think the term "literal value" from classical programming language documents might be relevant here.
The literal value conveys from the writer to the reader a specific value from one of the types. Thus
12345 is a literal value
123.45 is a literal value
'123.45' is a literal value (of a string).
Received on Thu Aug 04 2005 - 15:41:55 CEST