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Others have mentioned several books already. I think the concept is actually covered quite well in Learing Perl Objects, References & Modules, which was authored by the transform's namesake. The key of the transform is to greatly reduce the number of times you do an expensive operation in order to derive your sort values.

Ivan Heffner
Sr. Software Engineer, DAS Lead
WhitePages.com, Inc.

In reply to Re: What is "Schwarzian Transform" (aka Schwartzian) by Codon
in thread What is "Schwarzian Transform" (aka Schwartzian) by GrandFather

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