Ian Eslick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Now you can approximate this by mapping your non-integer objects into an
> integer space according to your own ordering. This is provided for in
> the (add-class-derived-index ...) ... [SNIP]
Ah, ok. I missed that. That's kinda what I had in mind by a protocol
to tell elephant how to define ordering and comparison on the objects
indexed in a slot. I'll experiment with this and see if I can get
it to do what I want. This is a more general mechanism than the trivial
patch I submitted, so I wouldn't rush to commit what I sent.
> However it may work for strings today because ordering is based on the
> order of binary bytes in the serialized representation of lisp data.
Okay.
> I'll see if I can document all this better in the next release; it's
> helpful getting all this input to see what is confusing to new users and
> what features they want!
Well, I'm happy to keep helping by asking questions, hopefully
they won't all be stupid. ;-)
--ap
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