> From: John Cowan <xxxxxx@ccil.org>
>
> Sudarshan S Chawathe scripsit:
>
> >   - It may be useful to allow fewer than two arguments for the string
> >     comparison procedurs (string=?, string<?, etc.), with the
> >     semantics that they return true when invoked with fewer than two
> >     arguments.  Such an interpretation may help avoid some
> >     special-casing when using 'apply' with these procedures (e.g., to
> >     check whether all strings in a given list are string=?, when the
> >     list could be empty or a singleton).
> >
>
> That would make the function different from R7RS-small, and would not
> follow the other (in)equality procedures in various SRFIs.  However, it is
> a reasonable extension that a Scheme might well provide, and if you wanted
> to make a patch to make it so in the sample implementation, I'd accept it.

I have just made a 'new' pull request on GitHub with this extension
added to both the portable and the two Chicken implementations.
(Actually it's commits that got added to my pull request from earlier
today.)

I added a simple test for the new cases for the comparison predicates to
chibi-test.scm, chicken-test.scm, and utf8-chicken-test as well.

Regards,

-chaw