Nick Coghlan wrote:
Jeff Shannon wrote:
I suppose that your version has the virtue that, if the sortkey value is equal, items retain the order that they were in the original list, whereas my version will sort them into an essentially arbitrary order. Is there anything else that I'm missing here?
Stability in sorting is a property not to be sneezed at [...]
Agreed. I'd started typing before I realized that it'd provide a stable sort, which pretty much answered my own question, but decided to send it anyhow in case I'd missed anything else... :)
Jeff Shannon Technician/Programmer Credit International
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