At 1:34 PM -0400 5/7/02, John Cowan wrote:
>Actually, the document contains characters, not strings. Strings are
>an abstraction you layer on the document, just like integers, dates, and
>floats.
>
I won't argue. If you prefer, go back to what I wrote previously and
replace all occurrences of "string" with "finite sequences of
characters". I don't think that significantly affects my arguments.
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