Expressions And Operators: Comparisons

Hack provides comparison operators. They operate on two operands and return bool.

• <, which represents less-than
• >, which represents greater-than
• <=, which represents less-than-or-equal-to
• >=, which represents greater-than-or-equal-to

The type of the result is bool.

Comparison operators are typically used with numbers:

1 < 2     // true
1.0 <= 1.5 // true

However, comparisons also work on strings. This uses a lexicographic ordering unless both strings are numeric, in which case the numeric values are used:

"a" < "b"   // true
"ab" < "b"  // true

"01" < "1"  // false (1 == 1)

Arrays are compared by length, then by lexicographic ordering on elements:

varray[5] < varray[1, 2]   // true (LHS has fewer elements)

varray[0, 2] < varray[1,2] // true (0 < 1)