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Ord type class #224

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This is sorely needed and the absence of this is making containers relying on order of values to be barely useful (one needs to pass around orphan instance implementations).

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  • Research: Prelude opaque types ordering among supported languages (for example: How is Ord Text in Haskell vs Rust vs Typescript vs Purescript, does the order match? if "b" > "a" in one language, it has to be the same in all others). How do we proceed if for example Rust and Haskell implement different ordering for Text?
  • Research: Plutus opaque types ordering.
  • Research: Specify how ordering is derived for transparent types. How does that impact Plutarc/PlutusTx backends? Can we rely on the ordering of the underlying PlutusData value representations?
  • Design and implement tests
    • I imagine an lb.json file that contains a List a where a is some orderable. The golden file would contain elements in correct order and the testsuite would read golden >> permutate >> order >> compare.
    • Otherwise, internal tests for each backend would also do property testing on a > b && b > c => a > c etc.
  • Implement Haskell, Purescript, Rust, Typescript, PlutusTx and Plutarch backends
    • Because of how the codegen framework works, theoretically this should 'just' require the LamVal spec.

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