Joe Gottman wrote:
In the definition of cmp, S29 says the function "returns
|Order::Increase|, |Order::Decrease|, or |Order::Same| (which numify
to -1, 0, +1)". Shouldn't the enumerations and their numerical values
be listed in the same order?
Joe Gottman
The enumerations and the numerical values are both in correct order.
Since "abc" is less than "xyz", "abc" cmp "xyz" is being invoked with
its arguments in increasing order, So it returns Order::Increase. That
numifies to -1 because that's how "less-than" is usually encoded.
=thom
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