At 7:53 AM -0700 5/21/99, Neil Rhodes wrote:
>Your comparison routine is called quite often during a sort; you can make
>calls from within there.
I'd recommend against doing that.
Right now, I think you're OK, but I can easily imagine an implementation in
which the sorting happened from a different task -- like the
synchronization task. In that case, doing UI from the comparison function
would be really bad.
In general, your comparison function should be self contained and re-entrant.
Again -- that isn't a requirement right now, so you'll be fine if you do
this in existing implementations, but you might want to note it in your
source so you can easily find/fix it later, just in case.
--Bob
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