[erlang-questions] {1} > 100 returns true ?!

[Robert Virding]

2009/5/15 Michael McDaniel <erlangy@REDACTED>

>
>  Per documentation in the reference manual section 6.11 Term Comparison,
>  numbers compare less than tuples ...
>
> "The arguments may be of different data types.
>  The following order is defined:
> number < atom < reference < fun < port < pid < tuple < list < bit string"
>
> If you are asking *why* that design decision was made, I do not know.
>

It was practical and useful to do so, and there was no real reason to
restrict it. What might have been better, 20/20 hindsight, would have been
to have 2 separate sets of comparison functions, those that work on anything
and those that only work on numbers.

Robert
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