comparing str's with ints

[Kragen Sitaker]

Frank Tobin <ftobin at neverending.org> writes:
> BUT, *this* does not make sense:
> >>> '5' > 3
> 1
> 
> What in the world is supposed to be the semantics of comparing a string
> with an integer?  Seems like a type trap...

Thus, heterogeneous collections are sortable.  This might be a wart;
once, > couldn't raise exceptions, and now we're stuck with its old
behavior in this case for compatibility.  It's kind of nice that
heterogeneous collections are sortable, though.