Footnote Spaghetti

Bill Ott bott at grpl.org
Wed Oct 6 13:21:36 CDT 1999


Bill G. properly identified the: "Schwartzian Transform"
And editorialized, "...much uglier in your implementation."

I'll take that as a complement.


        "This compact, map-sort-map technique is more reminiscent of the
functional world of Lisp and Scheme programming than Perl's normal C and awk
heritage.  Because it was first pointed out by Randal Schwartz, this black art
is often referred to as the Schwartzian Transform."
        - the Perl Cookbook

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Bill Ott      bott at grpl.org






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