Zitat von Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu>:

> On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 02:52:26PM +0000, Thomas Fischbacher wrote:
> > compare [|1;2;3|] [|4;5|];; (* ...but actially is not: this gives
> 1,
> >                                supposedly because the second list is
> >                                shorter than the first.
> >                             *)
>
> This is indeed unexpected behavior:
>     # compare "123" "45";;
>     - : int = -1

This is what I would expect.
It's the way I know.
check each char on equality.
The first comparision gives you, that "1" < "5",
and the comparison is done.



>     # compare [1;2;3] [4;5];;
>     - : int = -1
>     # compare [|1;2;3|] [|4;5|];;
>     - : int = 1

ooops?!

That's a point, where I would look into the the
documentation now ;-) because it's also unexpected for me.
Does comapre use different properties to comapare
arrays and lists?

Lists: compare element by element;
Array: comapre length?!

Ciao,
   Oliver