[racket] (string? "c'est ne pas une string")

From: Cyprien Nicolas (c.nicolas at gmail.com)
Date: Mon Jan 24 13:48:31 EST 2011

On 01/24/2011 07:01 PM, Jos Koot wrote:
> In the guide I found the following example:
> (string? "c'est ne pas une string")
> Clearly after René Magritte
> <http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Magritte>.
> But I don't think this is correct french.
> Of course the previous sentence is not, for it is English, I hope.
> I would write:
> (string? "Ceci n'est pas une corde") ; where the word 'corde' is French
> for the word 'string'.
> Jos :)
>  

Nope, the proper example should be:
(string? "Ceci n'est pas une chaîne de caractères")

The word "string" has many translations in French, depending on the
context. http://www.wordreference.com/enfr/string

--
Cyprien NICOLAS, PhD Student
INRIA / Université de Nice


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