I don't see any reason why Views couldn't provide operations for alphabetically comparing fields. I have attached a patch to 6.x-2.8 to accomplish this.

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dawehner’s picture

dawehner
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Status: Active » Needs review

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merlinofchaos’s picture

merlinofchaos commented

I'd prefer a reason TO do this than not having a reason NOT to do this.

Adding more options is something we do all the time, but it's good to justify them.

dawehner’s picture

dawehner
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The code itself looks fine and works. I'm not sure whether this is a often used feature.

I'm wondering whether this could be a flag in the definition.

bojanz’s picture

bojanz commented
Status: Needs review » Needs work

The patch has whitespace problems (indentation).

Other than that, I'm not sure I'd like to see this get committed. It's confusing and probably won't be used frequently (or at all, by most people).
As merlinofchaos said:

I'd prefer a reason TO do this than not having a reason NOT to do this.

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Letharion commented
Status: Needs work » Closed (won't fix)

Old issue, no attention, doesn't seem to interest the maintainers.