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| author | Rickard Green <[email protected]> | 2018-08-08 15:19:37 +0200 |
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| committer | GitHub <[email protected]> | 2018-08-08 15:19:37 +0200 |
| commit | d3eebb798cd0aac25f3b66e98aca3a0340017479 (patch) | |
| tree | accbebc01da3e7eb63ed5cb90a32d9c630000fd7 /system | |
| parent | a582364c31658bfddf80a5cad48bdf9f126eb373 (diff) | |
| parent | 70b5549473edfedba6c2af70e6b8e446f7c4e92b (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #1909 from fenollp/doc_cmp_atoms
Document how atoms are ordered
OTP-15220
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| -rw-r--r-- | system/doc/reference_manual/expressions.xml | 2 |
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diff --git a/system/doc/reference_manual/expressions.xml b/system/doc/reference_manual/expressions.xml index 94e40dd077..7eaa575f80 100644 --- a/system/doc/reference_manual/expressions.xml +++ b/system/doc/reference_manual/expressions.xml @@ -574,6 +574,8 @@ number < atom < reference < fun < port < pid < tuple < 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 |