Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr> writes:

>>> From: Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr> Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2015
>>> 11:05:11 +0200
>>> 
>>> I just saw that we do have `string<' (`string-lessp') but we miss
>>> `string>'?  Is this on purpose?
>>
>> What would '(string> A B)' do that '(string< B A)' doesn't?
>
> Right, but then why do we have `(> a b)'?  For the sake completeness, as
> we have #'> and #'<, I'd add `string>' to Elisp.

With that argument, we'd also need string<= and string>=.  But I'd agree
that

  (sort #'string> list)

is a bit nicer than

  (sort (lambda (a b) (string< b a)) list)

Bye,
Tassilo