sort container parameters

[Paul Dupuis]

I just discovered much to my dismay that you can not execute the following:

put "ascending" into tDirection
soft lines of tContainer tDirection international

apparently neither the sort direction (ascending|descending) nor the 
sort type (international|text|datetime|numeric|binary) can be variable!

That means if you want to parameterize a sort direction, you have to do 
something like:

if tDirection is "ascending" then
   sort lines of tContainer ascending international
else
   sort lines of tCOntainer descending international
end if

I see this a a bug or perhaps a failure to fully robust impliment the 
sort container command? Does any one else see this as a bug?

I suppose I could work around it with a "do" but that seems like a cludge

do ("sort line of tContainer" && tDirection && tSortType)

Thoughts? Comments? Opinions? Am I expecting too much of LiveCode to 
have sort direction and type actual parameters?