Converting an anonymous reporter in NL-5 to NL6

Question

I am brand new to NetLogo, and trying to use a model written for v5 on v6, and hit some conversion challenges.

From reading the docs, the replacement of ? with anonymous functions seems easy enough to understand, however most examples I have seen seem focused on foreach loops, and not enough mention of sort-by. When I apply the conversion that I think ought to work, I hit an error that suggests a literal is expected.

I have a challenge with these 2 loops in particular

#loop-1
foreach sort-by [[who] of ?1 < [who] of ?2] aset[ ]

#loop-2
foreach sort-by [ ?1 < ?2 ] bset [  ]

If I rewrite both as follows, I get an error that a literal is expected

#loop-1
foreach sort-by [[?1 ?2] -> [[who] of ?1 > [who] of ?2]] aset [ ]

#loop-2
foreach sort-by [[?1 ?2] -> [ ?1 < ?2 ]] bset [  ]

Would appreciate any suggestions.

Answer 1

I think I figured this out now. These work ... I needed to get rid of the '?'

#loop-1
foreach sort-by [[a b] -> [[who] of a > [who] of b]] aset [ ]

#loop-2
foreach sort-by [[x y] ->  x < y ] bset [  ]