This is documented (see Rank sentence in the doc):
https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/slashco#dyadic
The order of priority for ordering-up is:
Type: numeric or empty, symbol, character (byte or unicode), and boxed, are
so ordered
Rank: lower comes before higher
Values: compared after padding with fills to the same shape
Symbols are compared based on their symbol index, not the character
lists they represent.
Cheers,
David
On 3/13/2020 01:19, 'Jon Hough' via Programming wrote:
Consider the wrods:
words =: 'a';'z';'zza';'abc';'zabc';'abbb'
sort words
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
???a???z???abbb???abc???zabc???zza???
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
the sorted words are not correctly (lexicographically) sorted.
If I replace 'z' with 'z ' (space after z character)
words =: 'a';'z ';'zza';'abc';'zabc';'abbb'
sort words
????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
???a???abbb???abc???z ???zabc???zza???
????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
the strings are correctly sorted.
It seems sort has trouble with single character strings.
Is this a bug, or am I misunderstanding sort with strings?
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