From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com>,
"Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 69709@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#69709: `sort` interface improvement and universal ordering predicate
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 16:09:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86zfv6uqjn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D3DD6F8C-55EA-4602-8A8C-3CDD6252CBCB@gmail.com> (message from Mattias Engdegård on Sun, 10 Mar 2024 14:28:02 +0100)
> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 14:28:02 +0100
>
> The proposed sorting function interface would be
>
> (new-sort seq &key key lessp destructive)
A nit: let's go with a name that doesn't have "new" as part of it.
Something like "lsort" or "xsort" or somesuch. (I don't suggest
"nsort" because 'n' as the first character has a special meaning in
Emacs Lisp, so I'd like to avoid confusion.)
> because the keyword interface is easier to read and write than a lengthening list of optional positional parameters, and can be extended more gracefully. For example, it could be handy to have a `reversed` (or `descending`) parameter. The parsing cost is not significant.
>
> Instead of inventing a new and rather meaningless function name, I suggest we re-use `sort` and allow both
>
> (sort seq lessp) ; old-style
> (sort seq &key key lessp destructive) ; new-style
>
> since they are easy to distinguish, and let `destructive` default to false in new-style calls, true in the old style.
Do you intend to present an implementation that replaces sort-on as
well?
And what about performance?
Thanks.
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-10 13:28 bug#69709: `sort` interface improvement and universal ordering predicate Mattias Engdegård
2024-03-10 14:09 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-03-10 14:56 ` Mattias Engdegård
2024-03-20 19:01 ` Mattias Engdegård
2024-03-20 19:37 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-21 14:55 ` Mattias Engdegård
2024-03-21 14:54 ` Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-22 20:55 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-03-23 14:58 ` Mattias Engdegård
2024-03-23 17:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-03-23 20:09 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-23 23:19 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-03-23 23:25 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-25 11:11 ` Mattias Engdegård
2024-03-29 10:59 ` Mattias Engdegård
2024-03-29 11:38 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-29 11:52 ` Mattias Engdegård
2024-05-17 12:29 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-17 17:49 ` Mattias Engdegård
2024-03-29 12:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-29 15:02 ` Mattias Engdegård
2024-03-29 15:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-29 16:13 ` Mattias Engdegård
2024-03-29 18:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-10 15:48 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-03-10 15:56 ` Mattias Engdegård
2024-03-10 16:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-03-10 16:46 ` Mattias Engdegård
2024-03-10 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-10 17:54 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-03-11 7:01 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-04-14 14:03 ` Aris Spathis
2024-04-14 16:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-14 16:33 ` Mattias Engdegård
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