On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 11:36:41PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Let's put it a different way. Suppose we have a program that simply
> generates as output a random permutation of its input lines. Would
> that suffice?
>
> If so, perhaps we should simply create a new "permute" program rather
> tha
> > I think few people would care about this corner case.
>
> Maybe, maybe not; it's a bit hard to tell without knowing why
> people need the option to "sort at random".
I've given many examples - can you give an example of a situation
where people would put (a) differently-formatted numbers in a
