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JavaScript

// string based array
	var array = ["Fred","Wilma", "Pebbles"];
    /*	sort wrapper : note you could build a function that 
    	takes "sort types" such as fn('toggle'), fn('numeric')
    */
    function fn(reversed){
        return function(){
            reversed = !reversed;
            return function(a,b){
                return (a==b ? 0 : a < b? -1 : 1) * (reversed ? -1 : 1);
            };
        };
    };
    var toggleSortF = fn(); // starts as false
    var toggleSortT = fn(true); // starts as true

	// Check it:

	s = "<pre>" + 
    "\nTRUE" +
    "\n"+array.sort(toggleSortT()) +
    "\n"+array.sort(toggleSortT()) +
    "\n"+array.sort(toggleSortT()) +
	"\nFALSE" +
    "\n"+array.sort(toggleSortF()) +
    "\n"+array.sort(toggleSortF()) +
    "\n"+array.sort(toggleSortF()) + 
    "</pre>";

	document.write(s)