A string doesn't equal itself

[J. Landman Gay]

Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Bill Marriott wrote:
> 
>> What about
>>
>> put "3.141592653589793238461" is "3.141592653589793238462"
>>
>> Guess what Rev says? (True.) Longstanding behavior in xTalk, going 
>> back to HyperCard days.
> 
> You won't find much HyperCard worship here.  Sure, I liked it and used 
> it, but I've found many things in that app that I would consider design 
> errors and would count this among them.

You're blaming the wrong scapegoat. HC passed its math functions 
directly to the OS libraries. I'm pretty sure Rev does the same. Blame 
the OS.

I believe Mark's fix will accomodate the above.

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