In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, chrisguest
wrote:

> So I suspect that this is a common problem for those familiar with
> partially ordered sets or directed graphs. I'm wondering if anyone else
> is familiar with this problem and knows an efficient algorithm that
> will solve it. It would be good if any such algorithm would be able to
> check for circular definitions in the input.

You are looking for "topological sort".  Feed a search engine with that
term.  :-)

Ciao,
        Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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