On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 4:52 PM Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
<xxxxxx@nieper-wisskirchen.de> wrote:
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> Am Di., 16. März 2021 um 08:24 Uhr schrieb Daphne Preston-Kendal <xxxxxx@nonceword.org>:
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>> They do — the ‘less?’ argument. These procedures can also be used with comparators in the SRFI 128 sense quite easily: just pass the comparator-ordering-predicate of the comparator as the ‘less?’ argument.
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> The general philosophy seems to have been lately not to use bare ordering predicates in public APIs but to always accept comparators.

I think that only makes sense for those few APIs where either an
ordering or hash could be applicable.
Otherwise it's extra complexity and boilerplate to wrap a custom
`less?' in a dummy comparator.

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Alex