[Haskell-cafe] Dynamically altering sort order

[Martijn van Steenbergen]

Denis Bueno wrote:
> The problem here is that the order is fixed.  Statically.  I can't
> change it at runtime based on flags.  (Right?  Unless I'm missing
> something....)

That is right. It might or might not be a problem in your specific case.

>> sortBy :: (a -> a -> Ord) -> [a] -> IO [a]
>> sortBy cmp = map unCR . sort . map (CompareRecord cmp)
> 
> Right, that's what I was thinking, too.  The asymmetry was giving me
> the willies, though. =]

Yeah, I know what you mean; it doesn't feel very elegant. :-) I'm 
curious if anyone else has any neat ideas.

Martijn.