On 6 Oct 2004, at 15:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
sort cards of stack "aStack" \
by the name of the current card
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This version does exactly the same, but its purpose is
much clearer, isn't it ?
Well, no, to be honest....
I think the reason I find it so unintuitive is that I want to sort all of the cards (plural) in a stack, and the current syntax - 'by the name of this card' or 'the current card' seems to suggest, bizarrely, that only the current card would get sorted, which is why it didn't occur to me, though it's a nicely zen idea. :)
I suppose that 'this cd' refers to each card as it gets sorted, but, well, 'each' would seem more descriptive...
I suppose it's as much a use of english issue as anything else, but then what can we expect of a language capable of encompassing these statements:
Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo. (A grammatical english sentence, believe it or not!)
No head injury is too trivial to ignore. (Taken from a first-aid manual. No strange grammar, but actually means the opposite of what's intended)
:)
Mark
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