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Re: Partial sorting Pierpaolo Bernardi 10 Dec 2015 16:32 UTC

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 1:39 PM, John Cowan <xxxxxx@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
> Daniel Llorens scripsit:

>> As a minor comment, subrange parameters should include a stride
>> and not only start and end.

May I ask for a rationale for this request?

> I would only accept this if someone sent in a patch (which would have to
> be pretty comprehensive) to the implementation.

I hoped a motivation would be necessary too.

I can't see any use of a stride parameter which isn't really a bad
practice, which needs not to be encouraged by providing support to it.