[REBOL] Interleaving of strings question Re:(2)
From: grantwparks:y:ahoo at: 26-Sep-2000 13:33
I think it is an interesting programming topic (and I
did not mean my earlier comments to be absolute - it
was directed at the seemingly unresolvable debates
about whether or not do such and such). Most sorting
is done, it seems, on some sort of scalar level, and I
was interested in the idea of using each sort item as
a description of something else, in this case a point
on a plane. (I'm not sure why your #4 comment means
my function is wrong. Unless you mean that the
resulting sorted list is in order according to "its
distance from a point 0,0 that defines the most
'lower-left' point of an arbitrary plane". I.E. it
only works in quadrant II of that old x-y graph.
Please explain, if not. Maybe what's more useful
would be the function sorting in terms of distance
from any point, where I think the deltas come back
in.) To me it could relate to some sort of
abstraction on sort (using objects, blocks whatever)
that might be useful. I guess I knew I was opening
myself up to a "look who's talking" attitude, but I
was thinking about a real-world problem in terms of
some abstraction and trying to really understand what
the original poster's interleave method was getting
at. Often that leads to a cool generalization that
can be used elsewhere. That's why I considered it to
be a programming topic. You could argue it belonged
in a different list, but this is where the original
post was, and I'm trying to learn REBOL, so it's where
I posted. Is that the same as a thread discussing why
MS is successful, or why they suck? Again, on some
level you could argue it is. Up to you, I guess.
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