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From: Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com>
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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