A very good non-programmer friend of mine just read yet another
discussion on the Schwartzian Transform, and had this to say:
> So, having just plowed through more than I ever wanted to about
> the Schwartzian Transform:
>
> Is there some way to hard-code this into Perl6? Seems like it
> would be incredibly useful.
We're all for making easy things easy, but the complexities of
"map {} sort {} map {} @list" has always been befuddling to newbies,
especially when reading the code left-to-right.
Loooking over dev.perl.org/rfc, only two RFCs mention sorting:
RFC 124: Sort order for any hash
RFC 304: sort algorithm to be selectable at compile time
and none mentioning the Schwartz. :-)
This message is not an RFC, nor is it an intent to add a feature
to Perl or specify a syntax for that feature[*]. I just posted it to
get the idea into the archives as a (possibly) useful way to improve Perl.
>From a cursory glance, it didn't seem to have been mentioned yet in the
discussions about Perl6. (Please correct me if I'm wrong here.)
Z.
*: There are still 4 months until TPC5. Damian may have a source
filter to do this by then. :-) :-)
