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Chad R. Meiners wrote:


> Well I don't currently have time to whip up an implementation right now, but
> the general method would be to choose the base that you want to sort by
> (like base 2 , base 256 or base 2**10 and so on)  then you map the type to
> an unsigned integer and take ceiling(log_base (Element'Lenght)) passes to


How's that going to work for long strings or complicated records?