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From: "Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
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Matthew Heaney <mheaney@on2.com> wrote in message
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> Not necessarily.  Sorting can done by a separate sort algorithm that
> operates on items via iterators.  Or it can be a generic child function

I suggested this design but nobody seemed to really like it.
At the very least the algorithms should be in a collective child package.
Many users don't need them, and this helps control the complexity and
learning curve.

Ehud