[SR-Users] Odd behavior comparing strings

[Alex Balashov]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 03:10:32PM +0100, Duarte Rocha wrote:

> With "eq" it works as it should.

Well, in principle, '==' ought to work as it should, too. It's still odd
behaviour, I would agree. 

However, 'ne' and 'eq' are the operators explicitly designed for string
comparisons. '==' and '!=' attempt to make appropriate type inferences
based on the types of the operands, and as one can see, not necessarily
consistently or correctly.

-- Alex

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