'i'>&(a.i.])'j'
0

   'i'<&(a.i.])'j'
1

On Fri, Mar 1, 2019, 8:47 PM Roger Hui <rogerhui.can...@gmail.com> wrote:

> For the ordering used in sorting, what you want is the symbol denoted by ≺
> "curly less than" U+227A or ≼ "curly less than equal" U+227C in
> conventional mathematical notation, with infinite dyadic ranks.  It's not
> enough to make < or <: work on characters because those functions have 0
> dyadic rank.
>
> ≼ ←→  0 1 -: /:@,&<
>
>    f=: 0 1 -: /:@,&<
>    'foo' f 'upon'
> 1
>    'syzygy' f 'chthonic'
> 0
>    'pi' f 3.14159
> 0
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 5:10 PM Jimmy Gauvin <jimmy.gau...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > 'c' < 'b' doesn't work in APL either but 'c'='d' works in J and in APL.
> >
> >
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