On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 05:31:29AM +, David L. Nicol wrote:
> Piers Cawley wrote:
> >
> > >"David L. Nicol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > After reading Cawley's
> > > method, I wondered if using it we could make radix-sorts the
> > > default sort method.
> >
> > Er... the point behind ch
Piers Cawley wrote:
>
> >"David L. Nicol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > After reading Cawley's
> > method, I wondered if using it we could make radix-sorts the
> > default sort method.
>
> Er... the point behind changing numbers to binary strings was
> emphatically not so that they could be so
>"David L. Nicol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes) writes:
>>>
>>> > $srt =~ tr/0-9a-z\xe9/a-jA-ZE/; # uc & sort nums after letters
>>
>> `10' is going to sort before `2' with that rule. Having done the
