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if you don't know how it works, i really hope you're not using it for anything important! otherwise you'll be in trouble when you try to maintain it in a couple months! "now why did i do it like this... well, turns out i didn't even know then, and i'm more clueless now!"

this is what is called a Schwartzian Transform, so check out 441762 and http://www.sysarch.com/perl/sort_paper.html

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by rvosa (Curate) on May 17, 2005 at 19:31 UTC
    Hey...okay... interesting. Now I know what a Schwartzian Transform is. I've seen it mentioned before, but now I know. Thanks, boris!
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by rvosa (Curate) on May 17, 2005 at 19:02 UTC
    Actually, the main issue is that I rarely use 'map', and I should, so this is a good learning experience.
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