Re: Why is it
Re: Why is it
- Subject: Re: Why is it
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 20:29:08 -0700
At 18:57 -0800 12/31/04, Paul Berkowitz quoted another:
>
>> November > June
> > --> true
"November" > "June"
--> true
But I doubt that it has anything to do with conversion to numbers unless somehow sorting in ASCII/Unicode is done numerically. Note that 8 > 4 if you're feeling supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
"Tuesday" > "Monday"
--> true (Tuesday comes right after Monday.)
"Sunday" > "Monday"
--:> false (Sunday is a day before Monday.)
At 18:57 -0800 12/31/04, Paul Berkowitz continued:
>Your question was indeed so subtle that it was not entirely clear that you
>realized that " > " operator made sense only for numbers here, implying an
>automatic coercion to integer.
It depends on what the meaning of "here" is. . . is.
--
Applescript syntax is like English spelling:
Roughly, but not thoroughly, thought through.
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