Re: [Oorexx-devel] Request of folding "sort+sortWith" and "stableSort+stableSortWith" ...

[Rick M. <obj...@gm...>]

I am also -1 with this.  sort and sortWith are not a single function that
differ only by the argument.  They are completely separate implementations
that share no common code.  For all of the reasons I cited earlier, I
believe these should be left as distinct methods.

Rick

On 5/30/07, Rony G. Flatscher <Ron...@wu...> wrote:
>
> Having arrived (creating testcases for 3.2) at the sorting methods of
> the array class, I cannot help but feel quite a bit "un-Rexx-ish" here.
>
> The main reason probably being that the methods "sort" (no argument) and
> "sortWith" (one argument) would be shown as separate methods in Java,
> because they have different signatures, which is of utmost importance
> for the Java compiler.
>
> Whereas in Rexx I would expect to be "confronted" with one method "sort"
> only, which happens to have an optional argument. (The same is true for
> "stableSort".)
>
> So I request to fold at least "sort" and "sortWith" into one method
> "sort", and independently fold "stableSort" and "stableSortWith" into
> one method "stableSort".
> [This would be independent of the implementation internally which may
> distinguish between the variant without argument and the one with
> argument. This distinction would be an implementation detail for a Rexx
> programmer, which he would not need to pay attention to.]
>
> ---rony
>
> P.S.: Also, I truly think that doing so makes getting an overview,
> recalling and applying the methods easier (seriously!).
>
>
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