On 10/16/07, Bayley, Alistair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a minor point, but would mind explaining exactly what lexicographic > ordering implies? It appears to me that e.g. version 9.3 of a package > would be preferred over version 10.0. That strikes me as > counter-intuitive.
I believe the intent is "lexicographic" in the sense that a version number is a dot-separated sequence of integers. So if you interpret "9.3" as [9, 3] and "10.0" as [10, 0], then Prelude> max [9, 3] [10, 0] [10,0] and Prelude> max [1, 9] [1, 10] [1,10] work in the expected way. Stuart _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
