Re: Considering case...
Re: Considering case...
- Subject: Re: Considering case...
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 05:27:39 -0500
On Feb 22, 2014, at 7:59 PM, Shane Stanley < email@hidden> wrote: On 23 Feb 2014, at 7:02 am, Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden> wrote:
I've never seen this documented or discussed before, and I don't know what the reason for designing it this way was.
I doubt that it was designed at all in the sense of being a separate AppleScript function -- it's just returning what the underlying Cocoa string methods (compare: and caseInsensitiveCompare:) return. Can you think of any app or part of the OS that doesn't use lexical sorting?
Now that you mention it, that makes all the sense in the world. I'm so used to working with ASCII values that I never thought about it this way. After spending a little time with Google, I found the Wikipedia article about "Alphabetical order" helpful: < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabetical_order>.
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