JuliaLang/julia — comment on commit 78fc28cab5bc879dd265ec32e062eded0b78046b
File: j/sort.j line 245
By JeffBezanson:

I get the feeling this should be a higher-order function. It seems a little unwieldy to have every vector function accept a dim argument, and of course it doesn't generalize completely (i.e. you might not always be able to add the dim argument).