Re: Why is it
Re: Why is it
- Subject: Re: Why is it
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 19:46:45 -0800
On 12/31/04 7:29 PM, "Doug McNutt" <email@hidden> wrote:
> At 18:57 -0800 12/31/04, Paul Berkowitz quoted another:
>>
>>> November > June
>>> --> true
>
> "November" > "June"
> --> true
But that's not the same thing! You're using strings, not month constants!
What's that supposed to prove?
December > November
--> true
"December" > "November"
--> false
That proves that using ' > ' with month constants coerces them to integers,
which is intelligent. Using ' > ' with strings just checks the ASCII number
of the initial character.
>
> 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.)
But you're using strings! Michelle wasn't, nor was I. I started out by
saying that coercion of month to integer was implemented only in Panther (AS
1.9.2) - see http://www.apple.com/applescript/releasenotes/192OSX.html
So if you're currently in one of your Classic episodes, or up to Jaguar, you
won't get any meaning for the month constants.
May I ask why you didn't just copy what Michelle had typed?
>
> 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.
Nonsense. You're not here, nor anywhere near.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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