Re: sort constants confusing
- Posted by _tom (admin) Jul 12, 2017
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Base on the input from above...
My suggestion:
- leave the std/sort.e alone for compatibility reasons
eventually deprecate it? - in the demo folder: provide a set of sort algorithms (from allsorts and rosetta code) for those that have special requirements
- for stable sorting add: http://www.rapideuphoria.com/msort.zip from Mike
- for natural sorting add: http://www.rapideuphoria.com/nat_sort.zip from Andy Serpa
- The new sorting.e library will work on OE and Phix.
My working sorting definitions are:
stable
- as found in msort but not in std/sort.e
rank
- as output by the compare function (larger or smaller) or custom_compare
direction
- UP or DN (default small to large )
order
- the resulting sorted sequence
- default is numerical (mathematical number line)
- ASCII order for historical reasons
- unicode order is what UTF8 gives you
- natural order (as in nat_sort.zip)
- user defined for things like sorting playing cards
_tom
