Hi,

 

Does anyone know how Haskell’s tuple ordering works? Presumably for some tuple T1 (x1,x2,...xn) and another tuple T2 (y1,y2,...yn) Haskell would compare T1 and T2 as follows:

 

T1 < T2 if:

x1 < y1 OR otherwise if x1 == y1 then if

x2 < y2 OR otherwise if x2 == y2 then if

x3 < y3 OR otherwise etc

 

xn < yn OR otherwise both tuple are equal

 

In other words my best guess is that the ordering of tuples is by comparing the first tuple elements and then the seconds, thirds etc, until there’s an element less than another.

 

Is this reasoning correct?

 

So minimum xs

 

would yield the “smallest” tuple (according to the above rules and if xs is a list of tuples)?

 

Cheers,

 

Mark Spezzano