can't sort

[Steven Taschuk]

Quoth Anders J. Munch:
> "andrew cooke" wrote:
> > i'm not sure calling it a "functional" sort (not claiming that you
> > did, i think it was someone else) is a good idea - probably best to
> > avoid the f word :o)
> 
> "functional" is the usual word for functions without side-effects,
> what's wrong with that?

There is some feeling among some Pythonistas that functional
programming is less readable than imperative.  (Guido has said
something to the effect that he regrets including map() and
filter() in the language, for example.)  Andrew was, I think,
alluding to that.

-- 
Steven Taschuk                            staschuk at telusplanet.net
"Our analysis begins with two outrageous benchmarks."
  -- "Implementation strategies for continuations", Clinger et al.