From: "Carl Read"
> On 15-May-02, G. Scott Jones wrote:
>
> > From: "Volker Nitsch"
> > ...
> >> not sure if this helps, but since i spended some time to it,
> >> i post ;)
>
> > <snipped code>
>
> > Hi, Volker,
>
> > Neat idea. Kind of like a good cut of beef, I'm going to have to
> > chew on it a bit to fully understand its potential. Thanks for the
> > trans-atlantic volley ball pass.
>
> Glad you could work it out, as I couldn't make head nor tail of it. (:

I'm still cooking the meat on the barbie before I can chew it!
;)

>
> Anyway, I've played around with my idea for sorting according to a
> pattern, and while I'm not sure if the following code's very fast (or
> bug-free:), like Volker, I post.
>
> There's two functions:  One to take a pattern for creating a rule from
> and another to use the rule to sort strings or blocks of strings
> with.  First, the functions...
<nifty code snipped ... see:
http://www.escribe.com/internet/rebol/m22420.html
>

This is extremely promising.  I drew from the ISO-8859-2 character set to
make a rule, and it initially seems to sort correctly.  The time through is
roughly the same as my hack (but I've not really set-up a clean time
condition).  The only problem so far occurs when I run my word sample list
through more than once.  It seems to magically have kept the original sort/s
and continues to append new results to the block.  I cannot seem to find
where the problem is occurring.  Furthermore, I'm out of computer
"play-time" today, so it will have to wait.  :(

Meanwhile, I'm waiting for Volker's serving to slow cook, so I can fully
savor it soon!.

Thanks for the input.  Very exciting because it is so clean!
--Scott Jones

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