reference comparision

Lennart Ohman lennart.ohman@REDACTED
Mon Aug 28 09:12:21 CEST 2006


That is true, did not think of that useage...
/Lennart

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB) [mailto:ulf.wiger@REDACTED]
> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 8:53 AM
> To: Lennart Ohman; erlang-questions@REDACTED
> Subject: RE: reference comparision
> 
> 
> Lennart Ohman wrote:
> 
> > One can on the other hand discus the relevance of doing > and
> > < comparisons on a reference...
> 
> If references couldn't be ordered, you couldn't use them as
> keys in orddicts, for example. And if there weren't a
> consistent global ordering, you couldn't exchange such orddicts
> between nodes. That would violate the principle of least
> astonishment.  (:
> 
> BR,
> Ulf W





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