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Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 06:58:53 +1100
Subject: Re: NaN, Null, and Sorting
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On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> So I am strongly leaning towards implementing the comparisons such that Null
> objects are less than other objects so they will always sort together.

This is a perfectly plausible view, and is the one adopted by SQL (I'm
pretty sure the "NULLS FIRST" / "NULLS LAST" clause is standard - you
get to choose whether they're less than everything or more than
everything).

ChrisA