math: forbid dubious inequality comparisons.

The issue, reported by Paul A. Patience, is that
code like (< 1 "abc") is successfully producing a result.
The root cause is that 1 is an iterable object, and so
is treated as a sequence opposite to the "abc" operand.

We should allow only true sequences in this situation.

* arith.c (seq_lt_compat_check): New static function. Checks
that neither of two sequences is SEQ_NOTSEQ or SEQ_HASHLIKE.
(seq_lt, seq_le): Use seq_lt_compat_check to reject dubious
inputs.

* txr.1: Minor wording change in the related documentation,
removing a gratuitous adjective.

* tests/016/arith.tl: Inequality tests.

1 files changed, 56 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/016/arith.tl b/tests/016/arith.tl
index 52e8667b..be0d512b 100644
--- a/tests/016/arith.tl
+++ b/tests/016/arith.tl
@@ -166,3 +166,59 @@
   (prod #(1 2 3) (op * 10)) 6000
   (prod 2..8) 5040
   (prod 3..8) 2520)
+
+(mtest
+  (< 1 2) t
+  (< 2 1) nil
+  (< 1.0 2) t
+  (< 2 1.0) nil
+  (< #\c #\d) t
+  (< #\d #\c) nil
+  (< 1.0 1) nil
+  (< #R(0 0) #R(0 0)) nil
+  (< #R(0 0) #R(0 1)) t
+  (< #R(0 0) #R(1 0)) t
+  (< #R(0 0) #R(1 1)) t
+  (< #R(1 0) #R(1 0)) nil
+  (< #R(1 0) #R(1 1)) t
+  (< 1 #R(1 0)) :error
+  (< #R(1 0) 1) :error
+  (< 1.0 #R(1 0)) :error
+  (< #R(1 0) 1.0) :error
+  (< #\c #R(1 0)) :error
+  (< #R(1 0) #\c) :error
+  (< 1 "abc") :error
+  (< "abc" 1) :error
+  (< 1 nil) :error
+  (< nil 1) :error
+  (< 1 '(1 2 3)) :error
+  (< '(1 2 3) 1) :error
+  (< 1 #(1 2 3)) :error
+  (< #(1 2 3) 1) :error)
+
+(mtest
+  (< #\A 66 67.0) t
+  (> 67.0 66 #\A) t
+  (>= #\A 65.0 65) t)
+
+(mtest
+  (< "abc" "abc") nil
+  (<= "abc" "abc") t
+  (< "abc" "abcd") t
+  (< "abc" "abd") t
+  (< #(1 2 3) #(1 2 3)) nil
+  (< #(1 2 3) #(1 2 3.0)) nil
+  (< #(1 2 3) #(1 2 3 4)) t
+  (< #(1 2 3) #(1 2 4)) t
+  (< #(1 2 3) '(1 2 3)) nil
+  (< #(1 2 3) '(1 2 3.0)) nil
+  (< #(1 2 3) '(1 2 3 4)) t
+  (< #(1 2 3) '(1 2 4)) t
+  (< '(1 2 3) '(1 2 3)) nil
+  (< '(1 2 3) '(1 2 3.0)) nil
+  (< '(1 2 3) '(1 2 3 4)) t
+  (< '(1 2 3) '(1 2 4)) t
+  (< '(1 2 3) #(1 2 3)) nil
+  (< '(1 2 3) #(1 2 3.0)) nil
+  (< '(1 2 3) #(1 2 3 4)) t
+  (< '(1 2 3) #(1 2 4)) t)