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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand>
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Subject: Re: Did the sort do anything?
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In message <6fe88262-
fcb1-4cea-8d4b-97617b522c63@j31g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>, Robert Klemme 
wrote:

> On 20 Mai, 08:49, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-
> central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
>
>> In message <ir0oj24...@news5.newsguy.com>, Michael Wojcik wrote:
>>
>> > On the other hand, when sorts are used in most modern applications,
>> > they're comparing keys that are located elsewhere in memory and
>> > probably invoking a user-supplied comparison function ...
>>
>> Which is why Python, for example, has dropped the idea of a user
>> comparison, and emphasized a user key function instead.
> 
> Ruby solves this quite elegantly, you have all the choices:

So did Python, until it turned out some of them weren’t worth using.