Who's minister of propaganda this week?

[Darren New]

> Don't underestimate convenience.  :-) If you had to declare each
> string value in your program as a class like the above, it would make
> strings less useful in a practical sense although they'd still be
> equivalent in a theoretical sense. 

True. On the other hand, there are things like co-routines which, to get the
same effect, you have to basically implement co-routines rather than just
use an inconvenient syntax. I think there's actually a rather big difference
between "inconvenience" and "impossible".  :-)

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Darren New / Senior MTS & Free Radical / Invisible Worlds Inc.
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