Re: Unexpected value when using "<"

From	Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Subject	Re: Unexpected value when using "<"
Date	2014-11-24 19:43 +0100
Organization	PointedEars Software (PES)
Message-ID	<19416251.oVA11F6UJe@PointedEars.de> (permalink)
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RobG wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> You have overlooked that the Abstract Relational Comparison Algorithm
>> does not terminate the algorithm of the operator:
>> 
>> | 11.8.1 The Less-than Operator ( < )
>> | 
>> | [...]
>> | 5. Let r be the result of performing abstract relational comparison
>> |    lval < rval. (see 11.8.5)
>> | 6. If r is undefined, return false. Otherwise, return r.
>> 
>> IOW, *that* algorithm always returns either "true" or "false".
> 
> Ah, I skipped a step. Thank you.

You are welcome.

>> Apropos: The ECMAScript Support Matrix includes - and will probably use
>> in the future - a draft reference implementation of ECMAScript Ed. 5.1
>> (and probably later of Ed. 6) in ECMAScript which supports a trace mode
>> that is intended to make it easier to see such behavior.  […]  The entire
>> source code can be found in [2] (which I will switch to Git along with
>> the rest of my public repositories).  Feedback and contributions are
>> appreciated.
>>
>> [2]
>> [<http://PointedEars.de/wsvn/es-matrix/trunk/application/scripts/es.js>
> 
> That seems interesting, but I can't connect to http://pointedears.de.

It is working again since several hours.

Please trim your quotes.

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Unexpected value when using "<" RobG <rgqld@iinet.net.au> - 2014-11-23 17:45 -0800
  Re: Unexpected value when using "<" Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-11-24 03:37 +0100
    Re: Unexpected value when using "<" RobG <rgqld@iinet.net.au> - 2014-11-23 19:53 -0800
      Re: Unexpected value when using "<" Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-11-24 19:43 +0100

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