I don't have a general purpose solution to comparison across types -- it generally takes the form of wrapping whatever might have yielded a `nil` value in a `ca

I don't have a general purpose solution to comparison across types -- it generally takes the form of wrapping whatever might have yielded a `nil` value in a `case` expression. Not a big deal, but in cases where the rest of the computation would be garbage if a `nil` crept in, I would prefer if I could just Let It Crash.