Tuesday, November 03, 2009 1:24 AM,

A student writes.  Actually, I got this question from two different students.  
I do not understand where the difficulty in the English sentence is, but since 
more than one student seems to have had trouble with it, I guess I will answer 
it so you all can focus on solving the problem.



	 Hello Dr. Patt,
	 
	 I had a quick question about the assumption in note 6 of the 3rd 
	 programming assignment. It reads:  “You can assume that the directory 
	 never contains two nodes with the same last name.”
	 
	 Does this also mean that none of the nodes share a portion of a name? 
	 Such as if one node had the name “patt” and another node had the 
	 misspelled name of your book’s co-author “pattel”  would our program 
	 have to work correctly in this scenario?
	 
	 Thanks.
	 
	 <<name withheld to protect the student who ...>>




Are patt and pattel "the same last name"?

Yale Patt