Re: [Oorexx-devel] IsString(obj) identical to IsOfType(obj, "STRING") or is there a difference among the two APIs ?

[Rony G. F. <Ron...@wu...>]

Sorry, forgot additional infos:

    * 64-Bit Linux
    * official 64-Bit Debian ooRexx 4.1.0

---rony


On 12.07.2011 21:56, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
> While debugging a library, I stumbled about the following behaviour:
> after replacing
>
>     context->IsTypeOf(obj,"STRING")
>
> with
>
>     context->IsString(obj)
>
> the resulting library would not behave the same. Undoing the change
> makes it work again.
>
> Not being sure what the cause really is, I just would like to be sure
> that invoking IsString(obj) with the same object as
> IsOfType(obj,"STRING") should in both cases return identical results.
> Or is there some difference in howe these two APIs carry out their
> functionality, such that it is possible that they might return
> different results supplying the same object?
>
> ---rony