[r6rs-discuss] Comparison procedures' number of arguments

[John Cowan]

Thomas Lord scripsit:

>   2a) sequence predicates should not be primitive in Scheme

Such was the case until R4RS.  In RRRS and R3RS, the two-argument version
was standardized, and it was documented that some implementations allowed
more than two arguments.  The language about monotonic sequences goes
back to RRRS.  (I can't find a usable copy of RRS on line; RS is
silent on the subject.)

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