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Peter Alexander <peter.alexander.au@gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Peter Alexander <peter.alexander.au@gmail.com> 2014-02-15 13:01:25 PST ---
What should this do?

auto a1 = variantArray("foo");
auto a2 = variantArray(10);
assert(a1 > a2);

Throw a type mismatch exception?

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--- Comment #4 from Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei@erdani.com> 2014-02-16 07:14:11 PST ---
Scripting languages almost always have rich rules for comparison across unequal types, so I suppose that's an important convenience they offer. On the other hand, they're also widely criticized for the complexity and arbitraryness of these rules.

I'm not sure where that leaves us. I think we should just make Andrej's code work, because it works with regular arrays.

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--- Comment #5 from bearophile_hugs@eml.cc 2014-02-16 07:43:20 PST ---
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> Scripting languages almost always have rich rules for comparison across unequal types, so I suppose that's an important convenience they offer.

In Python2.x you can compare and sort lists of anything, but in Python3 they have made the type system more tight, and now you have to compare only compatible types (so comparing an int and a string throws an exception).

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--- Comment #6 from Peter Alexander <peter.alexander.au@gmail.com> 2014-02-16 08:50:47 PST ---
And for some reason I thought variantArray was a separate type... It's just a Variant[], and the code works for me.

http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/617841e1b8ff

I believe this can be closed as FIXED.

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--- Comment #7 from Peter Alexander <peter.alexander.au@gmail.com> 2014-02-22 05:13:00 PST ---
Was fixed in 2.064

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