[Haskell-cafe] PVP suggestion

lennart spitzner lsp at informatik.uni-kiel.de
Thu Oct 30 14:57:33 UTC 2014


now that you remind me: may i make a related suggestion to change the
wording in the explanation of the lexicographic ordering:

Instead of "For example, 2.1 > 1.3, and 2.1.1 > 2.1."
Write      "For example, 2.0.0 > 1.3.2, and 2.0.1.0 > 2.0.1."

for two reasons
1) an example following the A.B.C definition should have three
components (even if we just define "lexicographical" independent of
number-of-components; it is mistakable)
2) i once assumed that a.b == a.b.0 ; this change would prevent such.

(Or is there any reason against using trailing zeros?)


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