Gotcha - thanks for confirming. I guess I'll roll my own function to compare matrix sizes.
On Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at 12:44:12 PM UTC-7, Kristoffer Carlsson wrote: > > It is based on the first element, if these are equal, compare the next etc > until you find an element that does not match. This is consistent with how > Python compares tuples. It is also consistent with how C++ sorts Pairs. > > On Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at 9:30:32 PM UTC+2, Seth wrote: >> >> I *think *it's based on the first element: >> >> julia> (2,2) < (3,3) # this makes intuitive sense >> true >> >> julia> (2,2) < (1,3) # this makes intuitive sense >> false >> >> julia> (2,2) < (3,1) # this is somewhat confusing >> true >> >> but it might be nice to have pairwise comparisons, so that, for example, >> one can tell whether a matrix can "fit" inside another matrix across all >> dimensions via comparison of each matrix's size (in this case, the last >> result would be false). >> >> I'm sure there's a reason the ordering is the way it is, though - does >> anyone have any insight into what applications rely on this sort of >> behavior? I'm probably overlooking something very basic since I'm focused >> on a particular issue right now. >> >> Thanks for any insight. >> >
