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

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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.

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