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From: Eric Cook <llua@gmx.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Associative array sorting
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 23:44:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8e648e57-3ee3-4b70-b95b-bb1475b9c760@gmx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7Yc5v1EY1z35xtpAxG81nbYOJkxY3KNiFxpM8Vj7WDHBQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 1/19/24 14:18, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> I was just looking at this in the manual --
>
> a
>       Sort in array index order; when combined with 'O' sort in reverse
>       array index order.  Note that 'a' is therefore equivalent to the
>       default but 'Oa' is useful for obtaining an array's elements in
>       reverse order.
>
> Like (o), (a) applies after the param is turned into an ordinary
> array, so "equivalent to the default" kind of gets us off the hook,
> but this would be the obvious place to attach sorting the associative
> array by key rather than by raw hash traversal.
>

Sounds like a good idea to me.


  reply	other threads:[~2024-01-20  4:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-19 19:18 Bart Schaefer
2024-01-20  4:44 ` Eric Cook [this message]
2024-01-20  5:13   ` Mark J. Reed

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