Re: lexicographic list comparison

[Sam Steingold]

> * Mattias Engdegård <znggvnfr@npz.bet> [2022-09-10 11:07:49 +0200]:
>
> 9 sep. 2022 kl. 21.27 skrev Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>:
>
>> What do you do when sorting a list of lists of numbers?
>
> Sigh deeply and write ad-hoc code for the nth time.

okay, so, I suppose, you find the `lexicographic-compare-lists' from TS
useful, right?

>> Or maybe sorting lists of lists is just such a rare op that no one has
>> ever encountered it before me?
>
> It would be useful to have a total ordering on Lisp values: for
> heterogeneous ordered collections, for simplifying multi-key sorting,
> for normalising unordered collections, etc.

I certainly have no intention of comparing strings with numbers &c.
My question was about a list of _homogeneous_ lists, and comparing to,
say, lists of numbers, is done lexicographically based on number
comparison.


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