I've been trying to learn Haskell for greater good. It's a functional language, which (among other things) means functions are first class citizens: you can pass them as arguments to other functions, return them from functions, and easily combine them with other functions.

e.g. whereas in Perl you can create a new string with 
$foo = $bar . $ram . $ewe;

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in Haskell you can create a new function with 
f = g . h . i

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(assuming all the argument types match up).

That's what the Compose function I wrote does. I thought of doing that after noticing how similar your various sort functions were, and how they could be built by composing/layering basic operations on top of one another.

I'm not suggesting you write your code like that, I wrote it mainly out of curiosity to see what such a functional style would look like in Perl.

In reply to Re^5: short sorts by Arunbear
in thread short sorts by Lady_Aleena

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