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  1. Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Tue, 8 Dec 1992 10:13:51 MST
  2. Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1992 09:58:57 MST
  3. From: "Gregg Townsend" <gmt>
  4. Message-Id: <199212081658.AA20087@owl.cs.arizona.edu>
  5. To: icon-group
  6. Subject: Re: sortf() (new comment)
  7. Status: R
  8. Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
  9.  
  10. Another point is that finding field x (by name) of a record is relatively
  11. expensive, and this would have to be done on every comparison operation.
  12. Icon couldn't turn sortf(l,"foo") into sortf(l,3) in the general case
  13. because the list could be heterogeneous.
  14.  
  15.     Gregg Townsend / Computer Science Dept / Univ of Arizona / Tucson, AZ 85721
  16.     +1 602 621 4325     gmt@cs.arizona.edu     110 57 16 W / 32 13 45 N / +758m
  17.