Re: When is "z" != "z" ?

On Mon, June 5, 2006 9:00 pm, tedd wrote: >>Does that make more sense? > > Maybe to you, but not me. a b c . . . x y z aa ab ac . . . ax ay az ba bb bc . . . aaa . . . zzz aaaa . . . zzzz . . . aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa . . . zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz It's just like 1 thru 9 followed by 10, except that it is NOT an ordered set in terms of < and > > In my last post I showed an "actual sequence" which is debatable. It > could be interpreted that the infinite set starts at "a, aa, aaa,... " > and never reaches "b". Oddly enough, this could be viewed in all sorts > of ways. It's probably best if we don't look at characters as numbers. EXACTLY! They aren't numbers. So doing ++ to one of them, doesn't necessarily end up with an ordered set. Rasmus chose to make ++ be useful for generating sensible sequential file names, not sensible ordered strings. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm