scratch/sort-key 6d448cce870 6/7: value-less-p: add NEWS entry

[Mattias Engdegård]

branch: scratch/sort-key
commit 6d448cce8701da603179b45318fc83ad5c3881c6
Author: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>
Commit: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>

    value-less-p: add NEWS entry
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 etc/NEWS | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 69e61d91b0e..ccae29f6799 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1702,6 +1702,14 @@ precedence over the variable when present.
 Mostly used internally to do a kind of topological sort of
 inheritance hierarchies.
 
+** New polymorphic comparison function 'value-less-p'.
+This function returns non-nil if the first argument is less than the
+second.  It works for any two values of the same type with reasonable
+ordering for numbers, strings, symbols, lists, vectors, records,
+bool-vectors, markers, buffers and processes.
+It is intended as a convenient ordering predicate for sorting, and is
+likely to be faster than hand-written Lisp functions.
+
 ** New function 'sort-on'.
 This function implements the Schwartzian transform, and is appropriate
 for sorting lists when the computation of the sort key of a list