If you look up an ascii table you will see numbers come before upper case, which in turn comes before lower case. The programmers probably just did a simple compare instead of ignoring the case during the process (or similar).
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That's what I figured. I assumed it was either an oversight or done for expediency to tackle more important ~~bugs~~features.