Stable sorting on steroids

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Wed Mar 18 18:41:58 EDT 2009


DunbarX wrote:

> One of the undocumented features in HC was this version of the sort command:
> 
> Sort whatEver/howEver by sortKey1 && sortKey2 && sortKey3....
> 
> So you can "sort lines of container by word 1 of each && word 3 of each".
> 
> No limit. The sort order is from left to right.
> 
> The docs, as in HC, imply you should run through multiple sorts, and boast 
> they will remain stable.
> 
> Good to see this lives on in Rev. (still undocumented).

Probably just an oversight. Did you flag it in the RQCC?
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