From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: string> missing? Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2015 18:55:53 +0300 Message-ID: <83sia8rdkm.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87oakxkvqw.fsf@petton.fr> <83zj4grgkc.fsf@gnu.org> <87sia8n8b5.fsf@petton.fr> <87zj4gu821.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1433346992 9618 80.91.229.3 (3 Jun 2015 15:56:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 15:56:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nicolas@petton.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org, tsdh@gnu.org To: Nick Andryshak Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 03 17:56:18 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0B1Y-00046n-LS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Jun 2015 17:56:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36384 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0B1Y-0005XY-1x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Jun 2015 11:56:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56180) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0B1U-0005XT-Rc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jun 2015 11:56:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0B1P-0005H7-4R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jun 2015 11:56:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:41547) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0B1O-0005El-Sm; Wed, 03 Jun 2015 11:56:03 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NPD00B00LFOY400@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Wed, 03 Jun 2015 18:56:01 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NPD00BJJLLDXI10@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Wed, 03 Jun 2015 18:56:01 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:186991 Archived-At: > From: Nick Andryshak > Cc: Nicolas Petton , Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2015 11:46:44 -0400 > > > What would '(string> A B)' do that '(string< B A)' doesn't? > > Functionally, nothing, but it seems silly to have only one without the > other, don't you think? No, I don't. > Why would a language have '<' without '>'? Because it's enough? > > With that argument, we'd also need string<= and string>=. > > Nothing wrong with that. That's just the tip of the iceberg. We have quite a few of other similar situations in Emacs Lisp.