Marc Herbert <marc.herb...@gmail.com> writes: > Sorry but I am not interested at all in how the current implementation > works. I am only wondering why it was *designed* like this.
A variable can only contain a single string of characters. There is nothing at all to split. > "Everything makes sense" is a nice feature in programming language > design but extremely low-priority compared to consistency. There is no inconsistency here. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."