Character sort

[Dar Scott]

On Wednesday, April 24, 2002, at 03:40 PM, David Vaughan wrote:

> Just out of idle curiosity, I tried:
>
> put ""rubbish" into theBin
> set itemDelimiter to empty
> sort items of theBin
>
> Rev crashed.
> Funny, that.

(I assume the extra " is a typo.)

If crashing or locking up is not the desired semantics, then it is 
reasonable to plea for one of these:

set itemDelimiter throws an error
sort throws an error
sort does something ideomatic such as sort the characters

You found it.  ;-)

Dar Scott