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RE: Value.inverse: msg#00204

Subject: RE: Value.inverse
Sorry, I don't understand the problem. A<B can legitimately be rewritten as
B>A, which is what this code is doing.

Michael Kay 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: saxon-help-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:saxon-help-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> On Behalf Of 
> Colin Paul Adams
> Sent: 30 March 2004 14:19
> To: saxon-help-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [saxon] Value.inverse
> 
> In both 7.8 and 7.9.1 you have a routine inverse:
> 
>       /**
>       * Return the inverse of a relational operator, so that 
> "a op b" can be
>       * rewritten as "b inverse(op) a"
>       */
> 
> But there appears to be a bug here.
> 
> a < b yields the same result as b >= a
> 
> yet you have > as the inverse of <, and are likewise consistent with
> all the other non-symmetrical operators.
> -- 
> Colin Paul Adams
> Preston Lancashire
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