Server Selection

[Alex Stapleton]

On 6 Dec 2005, at 14:06, Gregory Block wrote:

> On 6 Dec 2005, at 13:59, Greg Whalin wrote:
>>
>> This is 100% correct.  I guess I had never envisioned people  
>> putting the order in different.  I would not feel comfortable re- 
>> sorting the list in the event that the user intentionally set the  
>> order for some reason (can't think of a very compelling one off  
>> the top of my head, but does not mean there is not one).
>
> The knee-jerk answer:  Because that's the way it's done on other  
> clients, and as such, behaviours between clients match?  :)
>
> I don't feel there's a good reason to sort in-client unless all the  
> clients do so; there's no point in behaving differently, as it  
> breaks compatibility with any perl-based commandline tools one  
> might write to access the same data.
>
> If someone wants to sort, they can sort on the way in, IMO.

why not just add something like

memcache_sort_severs()

so that if people want to ensure they are always in the same order,  
they can really easily?