Re: Re: -> {"AX", "!D", "EX"}
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- Subject: [mg76203] Re: [mg76074] Re: -> {"AX", "!D", "EX"}
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 06:15:44 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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None of the discussion so far explains the seemingly different behavior of
Sort[{"AX","!D","EX"}]
on the one hand, and
Sort[{"A", "!", "E"}]
on the other hand.
Szabolcs wrote:
> Murray Eisenberg wrote:
>> The docs cited DO seem to say how strings are ordered: "as they would be
>> in a dictionary....".
>
> Well, "as they would be in a dictionary" is a bit fuzzy, especially if
> the dictionary contains anything else than English words ...
>
> Some programs even sort differently based on the language settings of
> your operating system, and they do not always use single latin letters
> as atoms.
>
> Anyway, I am really curious about what motivated this decision about
> sorting. I hope that someone from WRI will explain it.
>
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- Re: Why Sort[{"AX", "!D", "EX"}] -> {"AX", "!D", "EX"} ?
- From: Szabolcs <szhorvat@gmail.com>
- Re: -> {"AX", "!D", "EX"}
- From: Szabolcs <szhorvat@gmail.com>
- Re: Why Sort[{"AX", "!D", "EX"}] -> {"AX", "!D", "EX"} ?