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by paulrusso 259 days ago
Hey! I've received this feedback from a few different people, and I agree with it. The latest version of Blots (0.8.0) changes the behavior of broadcast comparisons. Now, comparisons are applied to each element in the list, producing a new list of booleans. As you pointed out, this better matches the broadcasting behavior of arithmetic operators:

``` [1, 2, 3] * 10 // [10, 20, 30] [10, 20, 30] + 2 // [12, 22, 32] [4, 5, 6] > 3 // [true, true, true] [1, 2] == [2, 2] // [false, true] ```

In addition, I’ve added both `all` and `any` as built-in functions. These can be used to achieve the same result as the previous broadcasting behavior:

``` [4, 5, 6] > 4 into all // false [4, 5, 6] > 4 into any // true

// alternatively: all([4, 5, 6] > 4) // false any([4, 5, 6] > 4) // true ```

Thanks for the feedback!