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From: Paul Sephton <paul@inet.co.za>
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Subject: Re: String Representation
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On Wed, 10 May 2000 dick@csci.csusb.edu wrote:

> I thought
> 	'bblahblah blah'
> did that!
> 

Nah! That gets it into an atom.  define x('abc') and abc gets stored in 
an atom.  define x("abc") and it goes into a list of character codes.  I 
need both of these, but also need "abc" as a string under certain 
conditions.  with x("abc") and later x(S),string(X) fails.

Paul
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Paul Sephton (paul@inet.co.za)                               INET Development
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