Makes sense to me.  You know, Lex, you could attach a changeset :)  

Less talk, more code!  The future of squeak-dev starts with you! /me
marches around the room waving a banner...


> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of Lex Spoon
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 10:46 AM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: Re: [ENH] Magnitude >> ?
> 
> 
> Okay, I'll bite.  The proposal is plenty small that we should 
> be able to
> have a few hundred messages of discussion.
> 
> First, I don't like these coded results.  It irritates me every time I
> use C's strcmp.  If simply comparing with < and > are 
> inappropriate for
> the code in question, then can't we come up with *some* symbolic
> representation?  #< and #> and #= would be one reasonable way 
> to go, but
> I'd prefer even more that we have three Comparison classes 
> and that the
> results were LessThan, GreaterThan, and Equal.  Then, you can do more
> things with the result of a comparison, like sending them
> #isLessOrEqual.
> 
> Second, why #? ?  I've never seen this symbol used that way.  In
> general, it seems better to avoid uncommon binary operators.  In this
> case, how about a textual name like #comparison: ?
> 
> 
> -Lex
> 
>