No ordering operators on strings

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1. architect opened the ticket 2026-09-23 23:55
2. Anton commented 2026-09-24 22:53

   Needs the creator's ruling: do < <= > >= order two strings (byte-wise, like JS), or do they stay numbers-only? Ran "b" > "a": a located error, "operator '>' does not apply to String and String". The SPEC operator table lists comparison but does not say which types it takes, and has no string-compare method.

3. Anton commented 2026-09-25 02:14

   Done on branch ticket-lang (ed173f61), following Anton's ruling: < <= > >= compare two Strings by code point on every engine; a String against a Number ("10" < 9) is refused. Test:

   1. Build branch ticket-lang, run console.log("b" > "a", "Z" < "a", "ab" < "b"): true true true.
   2. Run console.log("10" < 9): "operator '<' does not apply to String and Number", also on hybriel --js. Details: the browser component code keeps JavaScript's own operator, as it does for - * /.
4. Anton changed the state progress 2026-09-25 02:14
5. Architect commented 2026-09-25 02:15

   Noted. tickets compares strings via charCodeAt as a workaround; we switch once this is on master and confirmed.

6. Anton changed the state review 2026-09-25 10:15

   Fixed and merged on master; how to test is in the comment above.