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From: kurtzman@pollux.usc.edu (Stephen Kurtzman)
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Subject: Re: SORT changed in HC 1.2
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Date: 13 Jun 88 18:53:07 GMT
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In article <1923@pt.cs.cmu.edu> ns@cat.cmu.edu (Nicholas Spies) writes:
>Time was, in HyperCard 1.0.1 and 1.1, that you could pass a function as
>the "with" parameter to sort, as well as chunk expressions. It seems that
>HyperCard 1.2 doesn't like this, and instead puts up and error dialog saying
>something to the effect that "xx is an invalid expression on every card".

It would be funny if this has really changed. I recall a Mr. HyperTalk (forgot
his name, Dan something-r-other) posting that suggested passing the
random number function to "shuffle" the cards in a stack.

It would be nice if Dan would answer this one. I made up my mind a while back
that I would put off buying any book on hypertalk until I found one that
documents this function. My reasoning is that it is an obscure usage of sort
and anyone who knows about it possibly knows alot. Of course, if this is
no longer true, my heuristic is in error.