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authorPierre Fenoll <[email protected]>2018-08-07 14:48:41 +0200
committerPierre Fenoll <[email protected]>2018-08-07 14:48:41 +0200
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Document how atoms are ordered
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@@ -574,6 +574,8 @@ number &lt; atom &lt; reference &lt; fun &lt; port &lt; pid &lt; tuple &lt; map
ascending term order and then by values in key order.
In maps key order integers types are considered less than floats types.
</p>
+ <p>Atoms are compared using their string value, character by character.
+ </p>
<p>When comparing an integer to a float, the term with the lesser
precision is converted into the type of the other term, unless the
operator is one of <c>=:=</c> or <c>=/=</c>. A float is more precise than