From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
To: Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: string> missing?
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2015 17:26:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zj4gu821.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sia8n8b5.fsf@petton.fr> (Nicolas Petton's message of "Wed, 03 Jun 2015 17:03:10 +0200")
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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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-03 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-03 9:05 string> missing? Nicolas Petton
2015-06-03 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-03 15:03 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-06-03 15:26 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2015-06-03 15:46 ` Nick Andryshak
2015-06-03 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-03 16:10 ` Nick Andryshak
2015-06-03 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-03 16:50 ` Nick Andryshak
2015-06-03 18:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-06-03 19:13 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-03 19:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-03 19:34 ` Nick Andryshak
2015-06-03 19:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-03 20:11 ` Nick Andryshak
2015-06-03 20:37 ` Jay Belanger
2015-06-03 20:53 ` Nick Andryshak
2015-06-03 21:35 ` Jay Belanger
2015-06-03 21:36 ` Thibaut Verron
2015-06-03 22:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-04 5:30 ` Thibaut Verron
2015-06-04 7:44 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-06-04 8:08 ` Thibaut Verron
2015-06-04 15:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-03 22:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-04 2:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-04 6:43 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-04 7:02 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2015-06-04 7:53 ` Gnus & Mail-Followup-To (was: string> missing?) Nicolas Richard
2015-06-04 9:04 ` Gnus & Mail-Followup-To Tassilo Horn
2015-06-04 12:50 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-06-05 17:07 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-06 8:48 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-06-04 4:20 ` string> missing? Thierry Volpiatto
2015-06-04 15:52 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-06-03 21:24 ` Richard Stallman
2015-06-04 15:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-05 17:56 ` Richard Stallman
2015-06-05 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-05 20:40 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-05 21:35 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-06-05 21:53 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-05 22:04 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-06 6:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-06 8:53 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-07 0:28 ` Richard Stallman
2015-06-06 1:52 ` Richard Stallman
2015-06-06 7:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-07 0:28 ` Richard Stallman
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