greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Oct 25 21:15:01 EDT 2003

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> If we're doing this
> (and it seems we are), I still prefer copysort() for clarity. 

"copysort" sounds like the name of some weird sorting
algorithm to me. I'd prefer "sortedcopy" (although I
suppose that could be read as a predicate, too --
"is x a sorted copy of y?")

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