Re: fixing infinities and ranges etc

2016-10-30 Thread yary
I'm not sure I entirely understand the proposal- does it change Inf aka ∞ ? Otherwise I like it, and prefer the X::NegInf and X::PosInf,spellings as being easy-to-understand & a good Huffman-encoding. Before/AfterEverything are also easy to understand, and would be as natural to use for sorting s

Re: fixing infinities and ranges etc

2016-10-30 Thread Darren Duncan
On 2016-10-30 5:45 AM, yary wrote: I'm not sure I entirely understand the proposal- does it change Inf aka ∞ ? Part of the issue I think is that the existing "Inf" aka "∞" don't seem to be very clearly defined. What I could find so far, at least with respect to Ranges, is that they are just

Re: fixing infinities and ranges etc

2016-12-11 Thread Darren Duncan
On 2016-10-30 4:11 PM, Darren Duncan wrote: On 2016-10-30 5:45 AM, yary wrote: Before/AfterEverything are also easy to understand, and would be as natural to use for sorting strings, eg. for saying if a database NULL should go before the empty string or after everything else. On the other hand,