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A "string" is made up of LEN-1 strings

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by: Hen Hanna - Mon, 27 Feb 2023 03:11 UTC

>>> As Skip pointed out, in C and most of its derivatives "C" is a string and 'C' is a character.

that reminds me... that ... i like how in Scheme, a string is a sequence of characters, but using them makes for verbose programming.

i can't quite understand if Python's definition of the string 'ab' as being made up of two strings ( 'a' and 'b') is theoretically clean (canonical).... it surely makes many programs short.

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A "string" is made up of LEN-1 strings	Hen Hanna