bug#69709: `sort` interface improvement and universal ordering predicate

[Mattias Engdegård]

10 mars 2024 kl. 17.03 skrev Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>:

> That sounds more confusing, though (you drop the 'pred' argument, and the 
> function changes behavior, possibly becoming slower too).

Is it really surprising that behaviour changes if you remove a 
previously-mandatory argument from a call without reading the documentation? It 
seems unlikely that this would happen by accident.