Richard- Good points all. I'm not requesting that the sort command be smart enough to handle all situations, but this is enough of a confusing point that I think the engine could benefit from some extra smarts. A simple parsing optimization for cases like
sort tVar by length(each) could insert the "numeric" specifier without problems. I may write a glx2 macro to do this, expecially since I don't ever expect to see action on enhancement requests. But the point of the request isn't to create a more elegant and streamlined language construct, it's to reduce user confusion and having to think too deeply about what's going on internally in the compiler rather than concentrating on the program being built. -- -Mark Wieder [email protected] _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
