Just now, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
>
> On Jun 11, 2012, at 3:31 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote:
>
> > Just now, Robby Findler wrote:
> >> I'd love to see something that at least handles the case of 2
> >> levels of nesting (if we consider the current situation to be one
> >> level of nesting), absolutely.
> >
> > OK. (The difference between dealing with 2 levels and N levels is
> > minor.)
>
> But the example isn't about nesting at all. It is about
> lexicographic comparisons with potentially distinct comparison
> operations per key [path]. Am I misunderstanding something?
>
> I am with Eli in that I don't think this is a common problem, and
> that a mechanism for comparing comparison operators and keys sounds
> like a promising way to deal with this problem.
I think that Robby meant nesting of the comparisons in the composed
comparison function.
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