Paul Rubin: > Bearophile: > > sorting, and something that's surely not bug-prone. In such situation > > having a 'key' argument is *better*. Such sort can be stable. > > Nothing stops comparison sorting from being stable. Since the rest of > your post seems premised on the opposite, I hope that clears things up > for you.
When I have written that post I was partially unfocused, I am sorry. What I meant is that a general sorting routine, even in D, is better to be first of all flexible. So I think it's better for the D built-in sort to be stable, because such extra invariant allows you to use the sort in more situations. Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
