Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad sorting arrays: request for discussion/thoughts ...

2012-08-28 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
Just realized (from habits of the past) that I forgot to explicitly ask for voting (up or down or abstain)! So please, if interested in any of these RFEs below, then consider to vote up or down or abstain by clicking on the link and then press the + button or the - button. If you want to

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad sorting arrays: request for discussion/thoughts ...

2012-08-28 Thread Dan Carter
sorting arrays: request for discussion/thoughts ... Just realized (from habits of the past) that I forgot to explicitly ask for voting (up or down or abstain)! So please, if interested in any of these RFEs below, then consider to vote up or down or abstain by clicking on the link and then press

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad sorting arrays: request for discussion/thoughts ...

2012-08-28 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
Dan: On 28.08.2012 15:22, Mark Miesfeld wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Dan Carter gwcar...@ezlink.com wrote: Rony, I just tried to vote, but there was no response when clicking the button. What else must I do to register a vote? It worked okay for me. I voted up and then back to

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad sorting arrays: request for discussion/thoughts ...

2012-08-28 Thread Chip Davis
On 8/28/2012 09:38 Rony G. Flatscher said: On 28.08.2012 15:22, Mark Miesfeld wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Dan Carter gwcar...@ezlink.com wrote: Rony, I just tried to vote, but there was no response when clicking the button. What else must I do to register a vote? It worked okay

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad sorting arrays: request for discussion/thoughts ...

2012-08-25 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
Hi there, thank you very much for all of your feedback which encouraged me to create the following two RFEs: * feature-requests:479 Add a condense method to the Array class: https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/feature-requests/479/ and * feature-requests:480 Allow the sort/sortWith methods

[Oorexx-devel] Ad sorting arrays: request for discussion/thoughts ...

2012-08-24 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
Yesterday I stumbled over a surprising behaviour of Array's sort, which led me to open a bug report https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/bugs/1107/. Obviously the sorting is working as designed, hence the reported behaviour was not accepted as a bug. Having slept a night over this and thinking

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad sorting arrays: request for discussion/thoughts ...

2012-08-24 Thread hakan
- Från: Rony G. Flatscher rony.flatsc...@wu-wien.ac.at Till: Open Object Rexx Developer Mailing List oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Kopia: Datum: fredag, 24 augusti 2012 12:02 Ämne: [Oorexx-devel] Ad sorting arrays: request for discussion/thoughts ... Yesterday I stumbled over a surprising

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad sorting arrays: request for discussion/thoughts ...

2012-08-24 Thread Rick McGuire
-wien.ac.at *Till:* Open Object Rexx Developer Mailing List oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net *Kopia:* *Datum:* fredag, 24 augusti 2012 12:02 *Ämne:* [Oorexx-devel] Ad sorting arrays: request for discussion/thoughts ... Yesterday I stumbled over a surprising

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad sorting arrays: request for discussion/thoughts ...

2012-08-24 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: These are fundamentally different constructs. Do Over actually requests a new version from the collection which is defined as being non-sparse. The sort is an in-place modification of the array itself. REXX used to have a principle of least

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad sorting arrays: request for discussion/thoughts ...

2012-08-24 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
Rony G. Flatscher rony.flatsc...@wu-wien.ac.at wrote: Yesterday I stumbled over a surprising behaviour of Array's sort, which led me to open a bug report https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/bugs/1107/. Obviously the sorting is working as designed, hence the reported behaviour was not accepted as

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad sorting arrays: request for discussion/thoughts ...

2012-08-24 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 7:15 AM, hakan hexi...@users.sourceforge.netwrote: I think it's not consistent with Do s over array say s end These are fundamentally different constructs. Do Over actually requests a new version from the collection which

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad sorting arrays: request for discussion/thoughts ...

2012-08-24 Thread Rick McGuire
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge jn.ml.sfrg...@letterboxes.org wrote: Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 7:15 AM, hakan hexi...@users.sourceforge.netwrote: I think it's not consistent with Do s over array say s end

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad sorting arrays: request for discussion/thoughts ...

2012-08-24 Thread Rick McGuire
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge jn.ml.sfrg...@letterboxes.org wrote: Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: Do Over is defined as operating on a snapshot of the collection, so this is a requirement for the instruction. Do you mean because the code inside