Summary

string<=? and string>=? return the wrong value for some strings

Metadata

• Id: 82bc4f239b4ed9275c53b526a0bb203c809c65c7
• Trac id: 1534
• Type: defect
• Reporter: sjamaan
• Owner:
• Cc:
• Status: closed
• Component: core libraries
• Estimated difficulty: easy
• Resolution: fixed
• Priority: major
• Milestone: 5.0
• Version: 5.0.0rc2
• Changetime: 2018-09-23 10:41:57 UTC
• Created: 2018-09-11 21:03:24 UTC
• Keywords:

Description

Nils Holm found a bug in `string<=?` and `string>=?`, which Sven Hartrumpf forwarded to our mailing list:

> The issue reported by Nils Holm in http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.scheme/t/6b8be06b84b39a7 affects chicken 5, too: > > > `(string-ci<=? "test" "tes")` > > `#t` > > `(string-ci>=? "test" "tes")` > > `#f`

This should be fixed in the `chicken-4` branch as well as `master`.

Changes and comments

[2018-09-11 21:04:00 UTC] sjamaan changed version from 4.13.0 to 5.0.0rc2

[2018-09-15 11:34:03 UTC] felix wrote:

Fix posted on chicken-hackers. Note that C4 seems to be ok - when this was fixed is not clear to me.

[2018-09-23 10:41:57 UTC] sjamaan changed status from new to closed

[2018-09-23 10:41:57 UTC] sjamaan set resolution to fixed

[2018-09-23 10:41:57 UTC] sjamaan wrote:

Fixed with 31bcafcf3014e128a462e48b0a35915a1180b5f4 (master) and 9b1694d542d0839b64774f96ece4a189498105c2 (chicken-4)