Draft proposal: allow the use of relational operators on Comparable classes

[Tom Hawtin]

Olivier Chorier wrote:
> I think dots are not a good solution because IDE are used to propose
> auto-completion with it

Then IDEs could propose one of these operators. Looks like an advantage 
to me.

Another potential issue with the language proposal is that compareTo is 
potentially somewhat less efficient than less general methods. For 
instance String.equals implementations can quickly determine that the 
argument is different through hash code and length. Computing compareTo 
could be much slower.

Tom Hawtin

> 2009/3/18 Howard Lovatt <howard.lovatt at iee.org>
> 
>> You could use new operators:
>>
>> .<.
>> .<=.
>> .>.
>> .>=.
>> .==.
>>
>> The dots are meant to remind everyone that a method, comparable, is called.