[Fwd: Re: [FWP] sorting text in human-order]

2000-12-27 Thread David L. Nicol
Is there a perl6 sort committee yet? AFter reading Cawley's method here, I wonder if using it we could make radix-sorts the default sort method. Original Message Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 10490 invoked from network); 2

Re: [Fwd: Re: [FWP] sorting text in human-order]

2000-12-27 Thread John Porter
David L. Nicol wrote: > > Is there a perl6 sort committee yet? AFter reading Cawley's > method here, I wonder if using it we could make radix-sorts the > default sort method. Perl6 ought to support pluggable sort algorithms, just as Perl now supports pluggable comparison functions. -- John Po

Re: [Fwd: Re: [FWP] sorting text in human-order]

2000-12-27 Thread Nathan Torkington
John Porter writes: > Perl6 ought to support pluggable sort algorithms, just as Perl > now supports pluggable comparison functions. By "pluggable" you mean that sort() should be overridable? Nat