From: Stephan Mueller <Stephan.Mueller@microsoft.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
"emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: master 71783e9: Add the string-numeric-lessp function
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 06:15:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CY1PR0301MB16597A5E586A14C7BA697CCEF0A20@CY1PR0301MB1659.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oabafwv5.fsf@gnus.org>
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
" The code almost got simpler, even. `string-numeric-lessp' now reverts
" to calling `string-lessp' if any of the embedded numbers overflow
" size_t. I think that should be OK for any real world usages... I mean,
" even that could be fixed if we want to be really picky, but I'm not sure
" it's worth it.
" (The fix would be: If the numerical stretches are of unequal length,
" then obviously the shorter one is smaller than the longer. If they're
" of equal length, then we can just compare the numerical stretches
" lexicographically. So we don't really really need to convert anything
" to numbers, anyway...)
Given you're in the code anyway, and have the fix worked out, I'd
be inclined to make the fix. But the fix might need a fix: what if the
longer one starts with zeros?
stephan();
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[not found] ` <E1aXLiO-0006ZB-4R@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2016-02-21 4:43 ` master 71783e9: Add the string-numeric-lessp function Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-21 5:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-21 6:15 ` Stephan Mueller [this message]
2016-02-21 10:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-21 19:35 ` Yuri Khan
2016-02-22 2:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-22 17:59 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-21 21:30 ` Paul Eggert
2016-02-22 1:32 ` Andy Moreton
2016-02-22 4:01 ` Paul Eggert
2016-02-22 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-22 2:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-22 3:50 ` Paul Eggert
2016-02-22 4:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-22 4:16 ` Paul Eggert
2016-02-22 4:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-22 5:56 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-07 0:16 ` Juri Linkov
2016-03-07 0:53 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-07 17:45 ` Richard Stallman
2016-03-07 17:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-07 23:55 ` Juri Linkov
2016-03-07 23:52 ` Juri Linkov
2016-03-08 2:06 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-08 9:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-03-09 9:26 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-07 2:27 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-07 21:14 ` Johan Bockgård
2016-03-07 22:03 ` Drew Adams
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