Incomparable abominations

[Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)]

Dan Bishop wrote:
> Because it makes intuitive sense that x != y when x and y have
> completely different types.  The same cannot be said about "3" < 1.

Well, it *could* be argued that, using the same kind of
reasoning, "3" < 1 and "3" > 1 should both be False.

Not that I'm arguing that myself!

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg