Re: string> missing?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Nick Andryshak <address@hidden>
> Cc: Nicolas Petton <address@hidden>, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, 
> address@hidden
> 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.