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The docstring of < (and others) says:

Returns non-nil if nums are in monotonically decreasing order,
otherwise false.

That seems a bit weird since a) they return either true or false and b) false is "non-nil" so it seems misleading / unhelpful.

What is the history for saying "non-nil" rather than true?

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