On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 03:35:14PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> > It can't use real numbers anyway. Otherwise, how would it compare:
> > 1.02.4-5.6 and 1.1.3-3.1
> It should be broken down at each decimal point, and the decimal point
> retained
> i.e. 1.02.4 brakes down to compare in order 1, 0.02, 0.4
No, it shouldn't. Consider, eg, treating 2.2.9 and 2.2.10 as "2, 0.2,
0.9" and "2, 0.2, 0.10".
If you're really so ignorant that you don't understand the way it
currently works and why it works that way, and so lazy that you can't
even be bothered looking for the obvious problems that suggestion would
cause that make it not even worth considering in passing, you shouldn't
be posting to this list. The above idiocy isn't even worth the time it
takes to hit "d".
Cheers,
aj, who thinks it's time to reclaim -devel
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