Why can't I xor strings?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2004-10-09, Jeremy Bowers <jerf at jerf.org> wrote:
>
>> Regardless of whether this is the best implementation for
>> detecting if two strings are similar, I don't see why xor for
>> strings shouldn't be supported. Am I missing something?
>
> The basic problem is that there is no obvious "xor on string" operation

Sure there is.  Strings have a boolean value, and the xor
operation on boolean values is well-defined.

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