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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:47:29 +0200
From: Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>
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On 19.06.13 17:46, Adam Beneschan wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 19, 2013 5:22:30 AM UTC-7, Robert A Duff wrote:
>
>> Lexicographic order would work.  Or backwards of that.  Or apply
>> "rot-13" to the bytes and then do lexicographic order.  ;-)
>
> I guess it could work, but I gotta tell you--that seems really weird.  I've never heard of another language where the semantics could depend on the lexicographical order of the identifiers.

Having had to live with products of programmers favoring symbolic
cleverness, I naturally think of what happens when some project
depend on lexicographical order and then someone wishes to give
packages different names. ARGH!