> 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. Sorry, this question was probably a tad stupid :) -- Florian Ebeling florian.ebel...@gmail.com
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