On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Stephen Bloch <bl...@adelphi.edu> wrote:

>
> Since there is in fact a well-defined and useful meaning for "(= a b c d e)", 
> to wit "all the numbers a, b, c, d, and e are equal," and a well-defined and 
> useful meaning for "(<= a b c d e)", to wit "the sequence a, b, c, d, e is 
> non-decreasing", it seems reasonable to implement these.

Certainly, but the original poster asked why it doesn't generalize to
*fewer* arguments.

"(<)"  = "the empty sequence is strictly decreasing"?
"(>)"  = "the empty sequence is strictly increasing"?

-- 
~jrm

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