<p dir="ltr">+1 for -1, 0, and 1, math simplifies then in cases</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 29, 2013 10:39 AM, "José Valim" <<a href="mailto:jose.valim@plataformatec.com.br">jose.valim@plataformatec.com.br</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif"><div>"Not me against".<br></div><div><br></div><div>But I think that term_compare/2 should return the term comparison operators <:<, =:=, >:> (or the @... alternatives) while compare/2 should return the old comparison operators as this is what they test.<br>
</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Another idea is to make them return -1, 0 and 1. Then you can use the output of both term_compare/2 and compare/2 (or any other comparison function) without checking for specific operators.</div>
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