Re: Inconsistent compare function return values

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Jeff Franks <jcf tpg com au> writes:
> 
> I have come across two compare functions whose return values are
> inconsistant. For two objects lhs and rhs 'gtk_tree_path_compare'
> returns 1 if lhs appears in the tree before rhs and -1 if it appears
> after rhs, whereas 'gtk_text_iter_compare' returns -1 if lhs appears in
> the text buffer before rhs and 1 if it appears after rhs. For the sake
> of consistancy and to avoid confusion shouldn't 'gtk_tree_path_compare'
> return its positive and negative values the other way around.
> 

I would think so, but then I wrote the text iter one. ;-)

Havoc