Why aren't the permutations from sortslices() available?

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I’m writing some data comparison code and it would be helpful if Julia had a sortslicesperm() similar to sortperm() so that a matrix could be sorted (like a vector) by
M = rand(0:2, 16, 4); p = sortslicesperm(M, dims=1): M[p,:]

However, I don’t see a sortslicesperm() in the sort documentation. Is that because sortslices() also operates on higher dimensional matrices and those higher dimensional permutations would be too complicated?

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This thread might be useful.
https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cant-get-sortperm-to-return-the-sorting-order-of-columns-of-a-matrix/84081