[m-rev.] Minor addition to string.m

[Ralph Becket]

Fergus Henderson, Friday, 31 January 2003:
> 
> I agree with Peter Moulder on this one.  If we're going to reuse the
> Perl name, then we should use the same semantics.

Fairy nuff.  Done.

> > The existing
> > formulation, I < N, P(S ^ unsafe_elem(I)) works fine with the current
> > compiler,
> 
> Are you sure?  With every possible combination of compiler options?
> Have you tested them all?

No, I was just being wildly optimistic.

> I agree that adding a sequential conjunction operator would be a good
> extension.  However, that doesn't justify writing broken code in the
> mean time.

Point taken (unfortunately I recall seeing plenty of code that is broken
in this way.)

How do you feel about the name change suggestions?

	Ralph
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