GNU bug report logs - #69709
`sort` interface improvement and universal ordering predicate

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 13:29:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
Cc: 69709 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#69709: `sort` interface improvement and universal ordering predicate
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 17:46:59 +0100

10 mars 2024 kl. 17.03 skrev Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>:

> That sounds more confusing, though (you drop the 'pred' argument, and the function changes behavior, possibly becoming slower too).

Is it really surprising that behaviour changes if you remove a previously-mandatory argument from a call without reading the documentation? It seems unlikely that this would happen by accident.
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