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

[Mike Heins <mikeh@minivend.com>]

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Quoting Ryan Hertz (rhertz@gyb.baits.com):
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> At 04:20 PM 4/12/00 , you wrote:
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> >At 02:37 PM 4/12/00 -0700, you wrote:
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> >>>DEL
> >>
> >>         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].
> >
> >Ryan -
> >
> >This is directly from the docs:
> >
> >...All accept a standard format sort tag which must be directly after the 
> >list call:
> >                                                                 ^^^^^
> >
> >     [loop 4 3 2 1]
> >     [sort -2 +2]
> >         [loop-code]
> >     [/loop]
> 
> Hmf.  Well, it should work then.  :-)  Sorry.
> 
> 

It doesn't. 8-) Even in Minivend 4.

I just discovered how bad the whole [sort ...] thing is for MV4. I did
say it was deprecated, but I didn't mean for it to be debilitated!

If I can rescue it, I will, but it may not be worth the trouble in MV4.

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