How about a slight change in grammar to clarify things. (s/numerical/integer/)
The integer 01 == 1 :. 0.01 == 0.1. I would agree that the use of "full
stops" (".") and such should be discussed. I understand the implied use
of the "full stop" is to delimit integer values of software versions,
but not everyone does apparently.
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 12:35:32PM +1000, Firewall wrote:
> "The numerical values of these two parts are compared, and any difference
> found is returned as the result of the comparison", so if we compare two
> version, 0.01 and 0.1 then the (numerical) difference is +/- 0.09 not 0.
--- policy.sgml.orig Mon Apr 22 23:15:19 2002
+++ policy.sgml Mon Apr 22 23:21:11 2002
@@ -1788,7 +1788,7 @@
<p>
Then the initial part of the remainder of each string which
consists entirely of digit characters is determined. The
- numerical values of these two parts are compared, and any
+ integer values of these two parts are compared, and any
difference found is returned as the result of the comparison.
For these purposes an empty string (which can only occur at
the end of one or both version strings being compared) counts
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Chad Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie
http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr
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