I found that a lot easier to deal with if you embrace the added arity of the comparisons. Specifically, I don't read (< x y) as "x less than y", rather, I read

I found that a lot easier to deal with if you embrace the added arity of the comparisons. Specifically, I don't read (< x y) as "x less than y", rather, I read it as "increasing x to y." This can work with (< x y z) to "increasing from x to y to z." (That make sense?)