23 Apr
2003
23 Apr
'03
10:45 a.m.
(It was an intentionally horrible example, for lack of a good one.) Applying some odd additional sorting criterion on a list of filenames might be a more likely activity where you would prefer sort stability.
/ Johan Sundström (folkskådare)
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2003-04-23 16:41: Subject: Re: sort
If the procedure steps must be executed in any particular order, they shouldn't be equal. The whole point in sorting a procedure is of course to get a total ordering from a partial ordering describing the interdependenices between the steps, and if the partial order is incorrect then of course the total ordering will be incorrect as well.
/ Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!)