[jexl] type coercion in LT/GT expressions

[Peter Royal <pr...@apache.org>]

Any reason why jexl doesn't do type coercion with LT/GT expressions 
like it does for others?
-pete

Re: [jexl] type coercion in LT/GT expressions

[Peter Royal <pr...@apache.org>]

On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 08:03  PM, Bill Keese wrote:
>> Any reason why jexl doesn't do type coercion with LT/GT expressions
>> like it does for others?
>
> I'm not sure, but possibly because it's dangerous, in the sense that 
> type
> conversion might not do what the programmer intended.  For example,
> would 9 > "10"  evaluate to true or false?   9 < 10

9 > "10" would be false. I am going to follow JSTL. If one of the 
arguments is a number, the other is coerced into a number

> but "9" > "10"

JSTL says that they should be compared lexically (ie 
String.compareTo()).

My specific need is for "1" > 0 to be true (string to number coercion 
when one argument is a number)
-pete

Re: [jexl] type coercion in LT/GT expressions

[Bill Keese <bi...@tech.beacon-it.co.jp>]

> Any reason why jexl doesn't do type coercion with LT/GT expressions
> like it does for others?

I'm not sure, but possibly because it's dangerous, in the sense that type
conversion might not do what the programmer intended.  For example, would 9
> "10"  evaluate to true or false?   9 < 10 but "9" > "10"

Just a guess,
Bill

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Royal" <pr...@apache.org>
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Subject: [jexl] type coercion in LT/GT expressions


> Any reason why jexl doesn't do type coercion with LT/GT expressions
> like it does for others?
> -pete
>
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