July 8, 2000

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A library is essentially a file that contains compiled object modules (a module is the object file produced from compiling a single source file). A program can call, or import,

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A character enclosed in a pair of single quotes is a constant expression that is evaluated to the numeric code of that character in the character set that the implementation