Re: `compare-strings' style question

[Andreas Politz]

tomas@tuxteam.de writes:

>
> Yes, that would be a similar problem as C, where zero's alter ego is
> false. It still looks a bit funny to say
>
>   if(!strcmp(foo, bar)) ...
>
> ...but at least, it's just a problem of name choice (more appropriate
> would have been something along the lines of strdiff).
>

I don't know.  It just follows the standard for compare functions in C,
which is different from lisp predicates, as well as lisp compare
functions.

-ap