Re: 0.01-6 > 0.1-3 ?????
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 09:58:21AM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
> Agustin Martin Domingo <agmartin@aq.upm.es> writes:
>
> > point in versions is not decimal separator, but major or minor version
> > separator. So
> >
> > 0.00001 == 0.01 == 0.1
> >
> > all means
> >
> > major version=0
> > first minor version=1
>
> Many developers don't consider those identical, though. I wonder if
> fields should be zero-padded to equal width before comparison? So
> comparing 0.01 and 0.1, you'd zero-pad 0.1 -> 0.10, and get the right
> comparison.
0.9 compared to 0.89 would then be the same as 0.90 compared to 0.89?
Not good.
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Rune B. Broberg
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