Re: Tweaking junctions

2010-10-29 Thread Martin D Kealey
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010, Damian Conway wrote: > The apparent paradox ... is due to the assumption (employed in the > second interpretation) that < is identical to !>=. Certainly that is > true for simple scalar numbers, but not always for vector types such > as tuples, sets, bags, complex numbers...or

Re: Tweaking junctions

2010-10-29 Thread Damian Conway
Martin D Kealey suggested: > Well, I think returning or throwing an "Unordered" exception would be > the appropriate way to handle those, both for complex numbers and for > junctions. For complex numbers that might be true, because the order relationship between two complex numbers isn't expressi