I don't think opCmp can fit that model?

But aside from that, I think that's misleading, and suggests to the user that it's a trivial operation.

Additionally, it's not necessarily even possible in a portable way.

I also think most users would expect that comparison operators produce a boolean result.

They'll be surprised when: if(a > b) produces an error.

On 3 March 2013 23:39, bearophile <bearophileHUGS@lycos.com> wrote:

Manu:

If you want to do component-wise logic,
the typical approach is to use component-wise selection, eg:
uint4 mask = compareGreater(a, b); // <- build a bit mask of 0's (false)

Isn't something like this better?

uint4 mask = a > b;

Bye,
bearophile