smcphelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I believe that is so strictly within in confines of the M ANSI standard. >However, for the newbies, all M implementations I am familiar with allow for >what they call numeric collation in the globals. So when you $O() through >an array with numeric subscripts, those will collate prior to the >non-numeric subscripts. Many M implementation allow you to configure you M >system to collate numerically or strictly ASCII.
Standard collation is the original standard for $ORDER. Strictly ASCII collation is a newer option. >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Richard G. DAVIS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net> >Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 5:11 PM >Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] MUMPS features > > >> 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? >> >> Richard. --------------------------------------- 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
