On Dec 12, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
> OK - that's just weird. I see what's going on, but what I'd expect is what (I
> think) Craig expects - that I'd get a list of the strings sorted by their
> character lengths.
>
> Is there *any* use case in which you'd want strings sorted by the alphabetic
> representations of their lengths? I can't think of any.
>
> To my mind, the "length" modifier should automatically force a numeric sort.
Actually Mark, I think LC is just seeing "the length of each" the same as
"length(each)" which is the same as doing a sort by a custom function - ("sort
tData by MyFunc(each)").
Regardles, though, I agree with you - LC should probably have more "smarts"
about sorting by functions that the engine already *knows* return a numeric
result…
Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: k...@sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
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