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tyingq
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Microsoft Exchange stops passing mail due to bug o...
Not that it excuses the issue, but I suspect the motivation was numeric sorting to identify the newest. So it was sort of a number in that respect.
LadyCailin
on Jan 1, 2022
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Not criticizing you, but no, it’s a string which happens to have a natural ordering. The fact that it happens to look like a number is irrelevant.
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It’s like nothing could have multiple useful forms. Which is of course not true. This is just a dumb bug.
tyingq
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The idea wasn't justifying the choice, but rather trying to imagine what happened. Because they did want a way to sort and pop the highest numeric value, they made a bad choice.
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