robison@m.cs.uiuc.edu (01/04/89)
I tried to sort a stack and got a message like "Sorting would be bad for this stack." What's the problem and how can I fix or avoid it? Arch D. Robison University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign CSNET: robison@UIUC.CSNET UUCP: {pur-ee,convex}!uiucdcs!robison ARPA: robison@CS.UIUC.EDU (robison@UIUC.ARPA)
spector@vx2.NYU.EDU (David HM Spector) (01/05/89)
You didin't mention what KIND of stack you were looking at, but.. Usually this means that the stack's author has created the stack with a certain card order that is essential for its use. E.g., the Apple HyperCard Help stack says this if you attempt to sort it. Sorting the Help stack would chage the order of cards, which would mean that you couldn't just browse the stack to read it end-to-end. This isn't an error, but the result of a message handler... hope that helps a bit... _DHMS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David HM Spector New York University Unix Manager/Senior Systems Programmer Stern School of Business ARPAnet: SPECTOR@GBA.NYU.EDU Academic Computing Center USEnet:...!{uunet,rocky,harvard}!cmcl2!spector 90 Trinity Place, Rm C-4 HamRadio: N2BCA MCIMail: DSpector New York, New York 10006 AppleLink: DHMSpector CompuServe: 71260,1410 (212) 285-6080 "Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life" - Senator Orrin Hatch