[cdr-discuss] lessp, etc.

[Matthew D. Swank]

The idiom is usually use to implement comparable types is to provide
lessp (and aequalis if need be), so I am not as familiar with using the
compare operator.  However, my concern is that making lessp and friends
regular functions would not allow users to provide optimized versions of
those functions as specialized methods.  Is a good implementation of
compare fast enough?

Matt