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.
>>
>

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