Jill Ramonsky <Jill dot Ramonsky at aculab dot com> wrote: > I am not the one who has not thought it through. There _is_ no > difference between decimal 7 and hex 7. They are the same digit. > File777 sorts before File999 in _ALL_ radices.
No, what Jim said was: > And the only way you can tell 7 decimal from 7 hex is by giving 7 to > different code points, that is File777 in hex should sort > after File999 in decimal. 777 hex is greater than 999 decimal. Of course, this is a very contrived example. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
