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@@ -1760,6 +1760,16 @@ precedence over the variable when present. Mostly used internally to do a kind of topological sort of inheritance hierarchies. ++++ +** New polymorphic comparison function 'value<'. +This function returns non-nil if the first argument is less than the +second. It works for any two values of the same type with reasonable +ordering for numbers, strings, symbols, bool-vectors, markers, buffers +and processes. Conses, lists, vectors and records are ordered +lexicographically. +It is intended as a convenient ordering predicate for sorting, and is +likely to be faster than hand-written Lisp functions. + ** New function 'sort-on'. This function implements the Schwartzian transform, and is appropriate for sorting lists when the computation of the sort key of a list |