On Jan 14, 9:00 am, "C. Florian Ebeling" <florian.ebel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What do you think should be the boolean result of (> nil 1)? > > > Since the inequality functions only work with Numbers, and nil is not > > a Number. The only way to make that work would be to impute some > > default numerical value to nil, which would probably introduce more > > problems than it solved. > > I agree. It only looks inconsistent when you assume nil is treated > uniformly by these comparison function, which does not make sense.
Perhaps you should use compare, which doesn't have the numerical restriction and also works well with nil.
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