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Macaulay2
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The Macaulay2 language
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operators
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<
< -- less than
Description
x < y
yields
true
or
false
depending on whether x < y.
Calls upon
?
to perform the comparison, if necessary.
For the programmer
The object
<
is
a
keyword
.
This operator may be used as a prefix unary operator in an expression like
<y
. The user may install a method for handling such expressions with code such as
< Y := (y) -> ...
where
Y
is the class of
y
.