Subject: string comparisons, was: Maxima 5.21.1 release
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:17:09 -0600
On 4/26/10, Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at gmail.com> wrote:
> As for is("x">0) giving an error, that is perfectly correct -- it is
> meaningless to compare a string to a number.
Disagreed on this point -- %i and 0 are incomparable but is(%i > 0)
=> false, not an error. By analogy, seems like is("x" > 0) should
likewise yield false.
> But in fact Maxima's comparison functions (other than = and #) don't even
> work on strings -- probably they should.
Agreed, < <= >= > should be able to compare strings.
best
Robert Dodier