RE: [mv] v3.12 - [sort] not working with [loop args]

[Ed LaFrance <newmedia@newmediaems.com>]

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To replicants of this thread -

Thanks for your comments. My point was that the [sort] tag was not working 
with [loop] in accordance with the documented legal usage. I was looking 
for others with first-hand experience of the anomaly.  I'll notify Mike 
Heinz of the documentation error.

- Ed L.

At 03:50 PM 4/12/00 -0700, you wrote:
>******    message to minivend-users from "Christopher Thompson" 
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>I agree, I don't think sort will work on a loop through values, but might
>work on [loop search=..."] which seems to be a no frills [search-region].
>
>I infer from Mike's comments that [loop] works by duplicating the code
>within the loop for each item in the list, and doing a sort of macro
>replacement of the [loop-...] tags as it goes. It is not really a
>branching loop the normal sense.
>
>Remember, MML is not a programming language. Believing it is will cause no
>end of suffering.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-minivend-users@minivend.com
> > [mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of Ryan Hertz
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 2:38 PM
> > To: minivend-users@minivend.com
> > Subject: Re: [mv] v3.12 - [sort] not working with [loop args]
> >
> >
> > ******    message to minivend-users from Ryan Hertz
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> >
> > At 11:27 AM 4/12/00 , you wrote:
> > >******    message to minivend-users from Ed LaFrance
> > ><edlafrance@printexusa.com>     ******
> > >[snip]
> >
> > >...still a blank page!  Finally I tried:
> > >
> > >[loop arg="4 3 2 1"]
> > >         [sort]
> > >         [loop-code]
> > >[/loop]
> > >
> > >...and...
> > >
> > >[loop arg="4 3 2 1"]
> > >         [loop-code]
> > >[/loop]
> > >
> > >At last the args were listed on the page, but they were not
> > sorted in the
> > >instance where the [sort] tag was included.
> > >
> > >So, it appears that:
> > >
> > >1). [loop arg arg arg] does not work at all, though the docs say it is
> > >legal; [loop arg="arg arg arg"] must be used instead;
> >
> >          I agree.
> >
> >
> > >2). [sort] does not work at all in this context.  I have used [sort
> > >database::fieldname] with [tag each database] and [loop
> > search], so I know
> > >those work, but when the loop data is supplied as a literal
> > argument or
> > >variable string and/or the sort is based on the loop data
> > itself (instead
> > >of a related database field), the sort tag appears to be broken.
> >
> >          It doesn't make logical sense to me that the sort
> > would be inside
> > the loop.  It seems that in that syntax that each looped arg
> > will exist as
> > a single item, sorting a single item wouldn't do much.  Perhaps if the
> > [sort] encompassed the [loop] it would work.  But, :-), I don't
> > have much
> > experience with using [sort].
> >
> >
> >
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