Re: attempt to compare two table values?

[PA <petite.abeille@...>]

On Mar 12, 2005, at 01:28, Rici Lake wrote:

> Presumably, it's not exactly like that since that function will always 
> return false, barring some chicancery with the implementation of 
> anObject.prefix().

That was a typo :)

> If I were to speculate, which I have to in the absence of actual 
> details,

This actually happen in the sort method of my list object:

http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/file/lu/LUList.lua

If no comparator is explicitly provided, the list lookup one by asking 
its first value for a comparator function.

>  I would guess that you misspelled the name of the comparator 
> function, thereby passing table.sort nil as its second argument which 
> indicates the default comparator, <. < doesn't work on tables:

There was indeed another typo in the method used to lookup the relevant 
comparator. Damn globals :P

Thanks!

Cheers

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