I believe that is so strictly within in confines of the M ANSI standard. However, for the newbies, all M implementations I am familiar with allow for what they call numeric collation in the globals. So when you $O() through an array with numeric subscripts, those will collate prior to the non-numeric subscripts. Many M implementation allow you to configure you M system to collate numerically or strictly ASCII.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard G. DAVIS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 5:11 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] MUMPS features > I believe that within the context of a global subscript, the values are all > strings. No distinction is made between what one may call 'numbers' and all > other concatenations of characters. Only as the subscript values are > interpreted outside of the context of an global subscript value do > characters become 'numbers'. Is this not so? > > Richard. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
