Re: Comparison operators for strings /and/ numbers?

[David Kastrup]

Christopher Howard <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi, in another lisp I have been working with, it has <, >, and ==
> (structure equality) operators which can take string arguments, number
> arguments, or a mixture of both. But it seems in guile that there are
> separate comparison operators for strings and for numbers. This makes
> sense but is not very convenient for my present purpose. Is there some
> other guile operators or extension operators that will handle both? I
> could make some I'm sure, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel.

(use-modules (oop goops))

(define-method (< (a <string>) . rest)
  (apply string<? a rest))

(< "g" "b") ;; => #f

-- 
David Kastrup