scratch/sort-key 2dc07013ef2 02/11: Add NEWS entry for value< (bug#69709)

[Mattias Engdegård]

branch: scratch/sort-key
commit 2dc07013ef2c8dad20f81056d56c586472b94441
Author: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>
Commit: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>

    Add NEWS entry for value< (bug#69709)
    
    * etc/NEWS: Announce.
---
 etc/NEWS | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index eda84d588a8..a525d84e2f9 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1708,6 +1708,14 @@ precedence over the variable when present.
 Mostly used internally to do a kind of topological sort of
 inheritance hierarchies.
 
+** New polymorphic comparison function 'value<'.
+This function returns non-nil if the first argument is less than the
+second.  It works for any two values of the same type with reasonable
+ordering for numbers, strings, symbols, lists, vectors, records,
+bool-vectors, markers, buffers and processes.
+It is intended as a convenient ordering predicate for sorting, and is
+likely to be faster than hand-written Lisp functions.
+
 ** New function 'sort-on'.
 This function implements the Schwartzian transform, and is appropriate
 for sorting lists when the computation of the sort key of a list