On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:

> 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


Did you actually mean true? (if not, I don't actually get what you're
after)...VersionNumber aside, I wonder what you could reasonably infer from
answer answer of true given for '1.1.2' < '1.12.3' ...I don't think you
could infer that 1.12.3 was published  after 1.1.2 for example.  I don't
think you could infer that 1.12.3 includes everything in included in 1.1.2
(i.e. that 1.12.3 is derived from 1.1.2).  About all you could infer is that
1 < 12.

- Stephen
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