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Re: master 71783e9: Add the string-numeric-lessp function


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: master 71783e9: Add the string-numeric-lessp function
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 12:59:40 -0500

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  > Skipping zeroes will make strings that differ only in the number of
  > leading zeros (e.g. 001 and 01) equivalent under that sorting order.
  > Are you okay with that?

001 and 01 should both sort between 0 and 2, but they should not be
equivalent.  They should have some defined order.

I think that 01 should be less than 001, but I don't insist.

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