Tell me I'm not crazy
Tereza Snyder
tereza at califex.com
Tue Sep 20 12:31:48 EDT 2011
On Sep 20, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Dave Cragg wrote:
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> On 20 Sep 2011, at 16:45, Tereza Snyder wrote:
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>> Is it crazy to assume that if "=" works, then "<>" (or in other languages, "!=") would also?
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> Not crazy, but we know we shouldn't assume too much. Some of us don't have six hours of hair to lose. :-)
Yeah, there’s a reason I always wear a hat in public.
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> If it is intended to be taken literally as "less than or greater than" then it is probably working correctly.On the other hand, the docs say it's a synonym for "is not", but "is not" appears to work with arrays also. The following work the same:
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> not(array1 = array2)
> (array1 is not array2)
This is what I’m using now that I’ve abandoned "<>".
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> So a documentation error perhaps.
Even if the docs were clear (e.g. "<>" does not apply to arrays, use "not(A1=A2)" instead), it would still be wrong, in my opinion.
t
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