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in thread Schwartzian Transform

Consider sorting a list of objects that have a stringification overload and two of those objects stringify to the same string. With the ST, everything just works. With the hash method, the two objects collapse to the same hash entry.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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