Re: Cant think of an elegant lua solution to this little problem

[GrayFace <sergroj@...>]

On 26.08.2012 8:09, Paul K wrote:
> Agree; I just sent an improved version that shouldn't suffer from this 
> problem. 

I see we used the same idea of first comparing the length of numbers and 
then using lexicographical comparison of numbers.
The improved version does still suffer from the bug caused by appending 
(99-#z): "012b" > "12a", whereas it should be "012b" > "12a".
In case "#t == 1" you shouldn't append #r, because "0.11" < "0.2".
You made me also think about the real numbers case. My attempt at 
implementing it has these bugs so far:
"." < " "   -- you'll face the ("." > "/") bug instead
"0.100a" > "0.1b"
I doubt the real numbers case has a use though :)

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Sergey Rozhenko                 mailto:sergroj@mail.ru