[FM Discuss] definition of string

[Seth David Schoen]

adam hyde writes:

> is it ok to say this : 
> "a string is a collection of characters like 'almond' or 'eiessj44ik' or
> 'almond34' etc"

Better "a sequence of characters", since order matters.  This
distinguishes a string from something like a regex character class,
where order doesn't matter.  For example, [rat], [tar], and [art]
would be the same character class, but "rat", "tar", and "art"
are three different strings.

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