procedures and sorting

[John Darrington]

On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 07:22:03PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:

     SORT is kind of a special case.  If you just want to sort a
     casefile, you can use the sort_execute() function.  Pass it a
     casereader and some criteria and it'll return a new casefile that
     contains the same data sorted according to those criteria.
     
Is there a good reason why sort is a special case ?
Could it not be implemented as a procedure like any other ?

J'


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