Change comparison operators to allow nulls (#8617)

Prior to this PR, the less/greater than operators (`<`, `>`, `<=`, `>=`)
would throw an error if either side was null. After this PR, these
operators return null if either side (or both) is null.

### Examples
```bash 
1 < 3       # true
1 < null    # null
null < 3    # null
null < null # null
```

### Motivation

JT [asked the C#
folks](https://discord.com/channels/601130461678272522/615329862395101194/1086137515053957140)
and this is apparently the approach they would choose for comparison
operators if they could start from scratch.

This PR makes `where` more convenient to use on jagged/missing data. For
example, we can now filter on columns that may not be present in every
row:
```
> [{foo: 123} {}] | where foo? > 10
╭───┬─────╮
│ # │ foo │
├───┼─────┤
│ 0 │ 123 │
╰───┴─────╯
```
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Reilly Wood
2023-03-25 16:10:09 -07:00
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@ -194,3 +194,10 @@ fn fail_on_non_iterator() {
assert!(actual.err.contains("only_supports_this_input_type"));
}
// Test that filtering on columns that might be missing/null works
#[test]
fn where_gt_null() {
let actual = nu!("[{foo: 123} {}] | where foo? > 10 | to nuon");
assert_eq!(actual.out, "[[foo]; [123]]");
}