sort lines by length

[Mark Wieder]

Dave-

Wednesday, September 24, 2014, 1:37:19 AM, you wrote:

> I have no strong opinion on this. The response to your request
> made some sense to me, as it would apply only to certain built-in
> functions that can only return a numeric value. So there would be
> some inconsistency, and also possible confusion if trying to sort on
> a custom function that *I know* always returns a numeric value, but
> the engine doesn't.

The bug report response makes *some* sense to me as well. But it's a
frequent source of confusion. The pedantic approach of specifying a
numeric sort works, of course, and it makes sense in hindsight. But it
should still be possible to tweak the sort routine so that if the
value being presented is a number it would force a numeric sort unless
specified otherwise in the command.

> I guess one case when you might want to sort alphabetically on
> length() is when demonstrating the behaviour of the sort command. :-)

LOL.

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-Mark Wieder
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