From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2005-12-13T21:36:26+09:00
Subject: Re: stable sort_by?

Frederick Ros wrote:
> Hummm not sure to understand ... You asked for a sort on the first item 
> ... So, in this case [1,"c"] and [1,"b"] are equivalent, and their order 
> is un-important ...

A stable sort will leave items in the original order if their keys are 
equal.  Since sort_by apparently is _not_ a stable sort, the secondary 
keys must be included as you suggested.

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