Nope. The fact that he's telling you a high-level command is irrelevant. (If you didn't know what “sort the papers” means, he'd have to tell you in more detail

Nope. The fact that he's telling you a high-level command is irrelevant. (If you didn't know what “sort the papers” means, he'd have to tell you in more detail; it's just the difference between calling your built-in sort routine or coding it.) Anyway: He's telling you to do something, and you do it. It doesn't get more imperative than that.