> Some people have proposed that it would be a good idea to have an > architecture for comparisons that are useful for making output (e.g., > a list of complex numbers) be returned in some well-defined order, but > which wouldn't be __cmp__. Then one can order complex (number > field, etc.) elements for all output, but still have < give an error > when used directly. This is a good idea; it allows for the > usefulness of ordering (e.g., making Sage more deterministic), without > causing as much confusion regarding algebraic properties of comparison > operators.
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