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Reitter: Answering the question: "How do I develop an app for GNOME?"Reitter: Answering the question: "How do I develop an app for GNOME?"Posted Feb 6, 2013 19:05 UTC (Wed) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)In reply to: Reitter: Answering the question: "How do I develop an app for GNOME?" by mpr22 Parent article: Reitter: Answering the question: "How do I develop an app for GNOME?"
Well, yes; it's OK if < is a partial ordering with incomparible values (there can exist a,b such that neither a<b nor b<a are true).
<p> But data structures and algorithms that depend on sorting break if there exist a,b,c such that a<b, b<c, and c<a are all true, so warts like this are a significant source of bugs.
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Reitter: Answering the question: "How do I develop an app for GNOME?" Posted Feb 6, 2013 19:13 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
I am a bit confused about all the above.
Especially the parts about using great-than and less-than to compare strings. Trying to program this way seems broken no matter what the language.
Reitter: Answering the question: "How do I develop an app for GNOME?" Posted Feb 7, 2013 9:25 UTC (Thu) by micka (subscriber, #38720) [Link]
There are orders over the strings. One of them is even a total order, and is even understandable and useful (well, for alphabetic ones, it's sometimes a bit hard to generalize to even US-ASCII, and worse for UTF-8+locale), the lexicographic order (the one you learn when one gives you a dictionary).
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