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Re: Comparison operators for strings /and/ numbers?
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Chris Vine |
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Re: Comparison operators for strings /and/ numbers? |
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Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:31:41 +0100 |
On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 22:05:37 -0800
Christopher Howard <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi, in another lisp I have been working with, it has <, >, and ==
> (structure equality) operators which can take string arguments, number
> arguments, or a mixture of both. But it seems in guile that there are
> separate comparison operators for strings and for numbers. This makes
> sense but is not very convenient for my present purpose. Is there some
> other guile operators or extension operators that will handle both? I
> could make some I'm sure, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel.
The predicate equal? will compare numbers, strings and records.
https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/Equality.html#index-equal_003f
Chris