On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 04:29:03PM +0300, Michael Snoyman wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Richard Cobbe <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm trying to sort a list of Text values using a collator obtained from the > > Text.Data.ICU.Collate module in the text-icu package on Hackage. > > Unfortunately, I can't use the normal Data.List.sortBy function with one of > > these collators, because the collators return (IO Ordering), not Ordering. > > > > It's easy to write sortWithCollator :: [Text] -> IO [Text], but I'd rather > > not have to. I haven't been able to find library support for this anywhere > > -- am I overlooking it, or do I need to write the sort function myself? > > Hi Richard, > > You want to use freeze[1] to get an immutable collator, and then use > the pure collate[2] function.
Ah -- perfect. Can't think how I missed freeze. Thanks! Richard _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
