[Lexicog] Sorting

[William J Poser]

There are two problems with storing sort handles in the database, other than
the additional storage (not a big deal these days) and the possible
tedium of constructing them. One is that it makes it more difficult to
change your sort order; you have to rewrite all of your sort handles
rather than just changing the input to your sorting program. The other is
that in many cases you need multiple sort handles, one for the primary
sort key, another for the secondary key, etc. This is easy to handle if
your sorting program can construct the handles internally, but a real
pain if you keep them as part of the database.

Bill
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Bill Poser, Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wjposer/ billposer at alum.mit.edu



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