On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 11:01 AM, John Cowan <xxxxxx@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:

> You're overloading "compare" to mean both the abstraction and ordered
> comparisons. Could we rename the ordering to be something like "less"
> or "order"?

The abstraction is always called a comparator.

Right, I didn't say the term was used inconsistently,

but ambiguously.

Or do you mean to say the abstraction is consistently

"comparator" whereas the ordering function is consistently

"compare"? I would still prefer they be separate.

Alex