"Jonathan S. Shapiro" wrote: > > So what does <= return when A and B are incomparable? An exception, I'd hope (or, just possibly, false, along with <, ==, > and >= - but that would be missing the point of exceptions, IMO). Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html Coming to ApacheCon Europe 2000? http://apachecon.com/