richard Davis wrote: >I believe that within the context of a global subscript, the values are all >strings. No distinction is made between what one may call 'numbers' and all >other concatenations of characters. Only as the subscript values are >interpreted outside of the context of an global subscript value do >characters become 'numbers'. Is this not so?
Not so. The recognition of canonic numbers is integral to the collation order of subscripts. Canonic numbers, such as 1, 9999999, 1.0005, -5, collate in numeric order and precede all other subscript values at the same level, including strings composed entirely of digits, such as "0000" or "1.000". --------------------------------------- Jim Self Systems Architect, Lead Developer VMTH Computer Services, UC Davis (http://www.vmth.ucdavis.edu/us/jaself) ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
