On 2008-01-24 Thom Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Correct about Increase. But would ::Decrease numify to 0, and ::Same
to +1? :)
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