in reply to literal lists

Well, the Camel Book justs says:
"If the left value is greater than the right value, a null list is returned. (To produce a list in reverse order, see the reverse operator.)"
No more explanation...
Sorry, Sven

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Re^2: literal lists
by danmcb (Monk) on Sep 06, 2005 at 10:07 UTC

    hah ... the answer is "cos they made it that way ..."

    fair enough.