From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2009-02-12T23:28:37+09:00
Subject: Re: If you are unhappy with the direction of Ruby 1.8.7+, respond

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Hi --

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Yossef Mendelssohn wrote:

> On Feb 12, 4:21�am, Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nut...@sun.com>
> wrote:
>> Bill Kelly wrote:
>>
>>> From: "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denat...@gmail.com>
>>
>>>> As I remember it, Matz didn't want to have a version number like 1.8.10
>>
>>> For what it's worth, my recollection is that matz wasn't
>>> _conceptually_ opposed to it, but rather it was not considered
>>> acceptable to break the existing code in the field which performed
>>> version checks based on string compares:
>>
>>>>> "1.8.9" > "1.8.8"
>>> => true
>>
>>>>> "1.8.10" > "1.8.9"
>>> => false
>>
>> I remember the discussions. I stand by my assertion that this is a bug.
>
> I don't know about the discussions relating to this behavior, but I
> find it dismaying that anyone would seriously say that this isn't
> desired string comparison behavior. I mean, these are *strings*, not
> anything special. They just happen to contain a certain pattern of
> characters.
>
> Or maybe you meant the bug was that people were comparing strings at
> all, which is understandable (though a strange word choice).

I think Charlie meant that a version comparison algorithm that didn't
understand that ".10" was greater than ".9" was buggy.


David

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