Suppose I have a list of mixed types and want to construct a list of ordered pairs from that list where the first element comes before the second element in the original list. I'm sure there's a better approach than what I've come up with:
In[15]:= lst = {0, "a", 2, "cd", 10};
In[16]:= Select[Flatten[Outer[List, lst, lst], 1],
Position[lst, #[[1]]][[1, 1]] < Position[lst, #[[2]]][[1, 1]] &]
Out[16]= {{0, "a"}, {0, 2}, {0, "cd"}, {0, 10}, {"a", 2}, {"a",
"cd"}, {"a", 10}, {2, "cd"}, {2, 10}, {"cd", 10}}
