||this is a functional version of quicksort, to see it work, say: || qsort testdata ||the reason we have to call the function `qsort' rather than `sort' is ||because there is a `sort' already defined in the standard environment qsort [] = [] qsort (a:x) = qsort [b|b<-x;b<=a] ++ [a] ++ qsort[b|b<-x;b>a] testdata = f 10 f n = concat(transpose [[0,2..2*n],[2*n-1,2*n-3..1]]) ||note that the sort included in the standard environment is merge-sort