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From: Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com>
Subject: Re: List Strawman JC01
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 22:45:06 GMT
Date: 2001-12-06T22:45:06+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C0FF4F2.77B88A8F@boeing.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: un10ww4g1.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov

Stephen Leake wrote:
> 
> I agree with Ted; we need to be careful about making implicit
> assumptions about direction.

Order is a basic property of sequences such as lists. I much prefer
making clients sort into descending order than allowing them to sort
into ascending order backwards, or however one says what such a
component would allow. It would allow 4 ways to obtain 2 results; the
added complexity does not seem to buy anything.

-- 
Jeffrey Carter



  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-06 22:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-05  6:08 List Strawman JC01 Jeffrey Carter
2001-12-05 19:14 ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-06  0:14   ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-12-06  3:15     ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-12-06 16:11     ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-06 17:48       ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-12-07 15:06         ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-07 17:43           ` Stephen Leake
2001-12-07 18:59             ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-09 14:04               ` Mark Lundquist
2001-12-10 15:25                 ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-10 15:46               ` Marin David Condic
2001-12-10 17:12                 ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-07 18:10           ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-12-07 19:45             ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-07 22:47               ` Basic Properties of Lists Jeffrey Carter
2001-12-09 14:04                 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-12-09 18:16                   ` Chad R. Meiners
2001-12-09 21:21                   ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-12-10 15:37                   ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-10 22:13                     ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-12-11 14:33                       ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-09 14:04           ` List Strawman JC01 Mark Lundquist
2001-12-10 17:02             ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-10 17:13               ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-10 15:37           ` Marin David Condic
2001-12-10 16:10             ` Larry Hazel
2001-12-06 19:09       ` Stephen Leake
2001-12-06 22:45         ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2001-12-07 16:54           ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-07 17:18             ` Darren New
2001-12-07 17:44               ` Doubly-linked list ordering(s) (was: List Strawman JC01) Ted Dennison
2001-12-07 17:30         ` List Strawman JC01 Ted Dennison
2001-12-06 19:34     ` Mark Lundquist
2001-12-07 17:04       ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-07 22:27         ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-12-09 14:04         ` Mark Lundquist
2001-12-06 19:34   ` Mark Lundquist
2001-12-06 23:09 ` Nick Roberts
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