From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-08-12T08:05:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Feature request: stable sort

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 06:06:19AM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
> Going back to the stable sort issue: Is there any
> reason you couldn't just map to an array that has
> the original elements along with the indices, and
> use the indices as a secondary key? I would think
> that would work unless you were going for blazing
> speed.

It's what I did to work around my original problem, but it's a pain having
to do that. An existing array of [key,value] needs to be changed to
[key,original_sequence,value]

(I was doing "sort these E-mail addresses by dated created, but any groups
which had the same creation date should be kept in the same order")

Cheers,

Brian.