[squeak-dev] Re: 1.0 not a valid VersionNumber?
Andreas Raab
andreas.raab at gmx.de
Wed Apr 9 17:49:21 UTC 2008
Stephen Pair wrote:
> Simplified example. The real version number I'm interested in looks
> like "1.0.34". But it looks like VersionNumber is a no-go for me
> anyway as you can't even compare, e.g., '1.1.1' asVersion <= '1.2.3'
> asVersion. Does anyone actually use VersionNumber? I must be missing
> the real use cases for it.
>
>
> I'm curious whether you'd expect this to return true or false (I'm guess
> true). The reason it refuses that compasion is that #< is meant to test
> whether a given version number is an ancestor of another. If you want
> the stringish comparison behavior, you could just use string.
I wish...
'1.1.2' < '1.12.3'
=> false
Cheers,
- Andreas
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