Re: [Oorexx-devel] Fwd: [oorexx:feature-requests] #473 String compares should have special exception for .nil

2012-08-22 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: This is fairly simple to implement for the equals/not equals variants. The real open question is how to handle the other comparisons such as , , etc. These are probably VERY rare situations, but the behavior still needs to be defined. I see three

[Oorexx-devel] Fwd: [oorexx:feature-requests] #473 String compares should have special exception for .nil

2012-08-21 Thread Rick McGuire
This is fairly simple to implement for the equals/not equals variants. The real open question is how to handle the other comparisons such as , , etc. These are probably VERY rare situations, but the behavior still needs to be defined. I see three obvious paths: 1) Leave them the way they are

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Fwd: [oorexx:feature-requests] #473 String compares should have special exception for .nil

2012-08-21 Thread Mark Miesfeld
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: This is fairly simple to implement for the equals/not equals variants. The real open question is how to handle the other comparisons such as , , etc. These are probably VERY rare situations, but the behavior still

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Fwd: [oorexx:feature-requests] #473 String compares should have special exception for .nil

2012-08-21 Thread Rick McGuire
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Mark Miesfeld miesf...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: This is fairly simple to implement for the equals/not equals variants. The real open question is how to handle the other comparisons such as