On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 17:49 +0800, John Summerfied wrote: > C++ does have strings: The conception of a C++ "string" is quite different from that in other languages and leaves a lot of room for argument of "if C++ has Strings". For example: In Pascal, Modula etc. Strings are element of the language and are designated as datatypes for "representation of textual data" and textual I/O. A C++ "string" is a specialization of a container class template, i.e. "string" is not element of the actual C++-language, and is not a datatype explicitly specialized on "representation of textual data". In a nutshell: In C++, "string" is not an ordinal type, in other languages it is. Ralf
