From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master 71783e9: Add the string-numeric-lessp function Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 12:59:40 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20160221043348.25201.81719@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <87twl2fzaw.fsf@gnus.org> <87oabafwv5.fsf@gnus.org> <87twl2e5ys.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456164041 27029 80.91.229.3 (22 Feb 2016 18:00:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 18:00:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, Stephan.Mueller@microsoft.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 22 19:00:27 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aXumQ-0002xy-SH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 19:00:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50954 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXumQ-0006XR-Az for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:00:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40815) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXum7-0006V3-6d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:00:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXum6-0007Gs-DR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 12:59:59 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41473) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXuly-0007Cb-A0; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 12:59:50 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aXulo-0000c3-Ov; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 12:59:41 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Yuri Khan on Mon, 22 Feb 2016 01:35:29 +0600) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:200473 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Skipping zeroes will make strings that differ only in the number of > leading zeros (e.g. 001 and 01) equivalent under that sorting order. > Are you okay with that? 001 and 01 should both sort between 0 and 2, but they should not be equivalent. They should have some defined order. I think that 01 should be less than 001, but I don't insist. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.