To compare any type of number to any type of number?  Or to compare any 
type of number to another of the same type?  Also I can see many usages of 
compare beyond number comparisons too.

If the first, I'm unsure what sense it is to compare, say, a decimal to a 
Timex date?


On Monday, August 29, 2016 at 1:57:58 PM UTC-6, Ben Wilson wrote:
>
> Because half the point of the comparable protocol is making it easy to 
> compare numbers generically, where "numbers" can be any of integer, float, 
> decimal, rational.
>
>

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