Subject: bug#18051: 24.3.92; ls-lisp: Sorting; make ls-lisp-string-lessp a normal function?

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 11:01:00 -0400

>> An optional argument to string-lessp could be inconvenient. IMHO, the
>> most important use-case of string-lessp is being a PREDICATE of
>> sort. This does not support optional arguments.

Of course it does:

    (sort foo (lambda (x y) (string-lessp x y 'optional-arg)))

-- Stefan