Re: [RFC] Pattern Matching

On Mon, Dec 1, 2025, at 7:24 PM, Stephen Reay wrote: > Hi Larry, > > Is there a specific reason why less than/etc comparison (and the future > scope of ranges) is limited to numerics? > > 'A' < 'K' comparisons are already in the language, and range() accepts > string arguments to produce an array of bytes. > > Cheers > > Stephen Because neither of us ever use comparisons on strings, as it's not super reliable, so it never came up. :-) We'd prefer to keep it numeric, as the logic otherwise could get confusing. (Personally I'd prefer to even exclude numeric strings, but that ends up being more work.) --Larry Garfield