On 2016-10-30 4:11 PM, Darren Duncan wrote:
On 2016-10-30 5:45 AM, yary wrote:
Before/AfterEverything are also easy to understand, and would be as natural to
use for sorting strings, eg. for saying if a database NULL should go before the
empty string or after everything else. On the other hand,
On 2016-10-30 5:45 AM, yary wrote:
I'm not sure I entirely understand the proposal- does it change Inf aka ∞ ?
Part of the issue I think is that the existing "Inf" aka "∞" don't seem to be
very clearly defined.
What I could find so far, at least with respect to Ranges, is that they are just
I'm not sure I entirely understand the proposal- does it change Inf aka ∞ ?
Otherwise I like it, and prefer the X::NegInf and X::PosInf,spellings as
being easy-to-understand & a good Huffman-encoding.
Before/AfterEverything are also easy to understand, and would be as natural
to use for sorting
I have observed that the current Perl 6 spec and implementations seem deficient
in regards to representing some special values or conditions, in particular the
concept of the two linear directional infinities or otherwise special values
that naturally sort before and after everything else.
