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Re: [MacPerl] Schwartzian transform

At 21:07 -0400 6/17/99, Chris Nandor wrote:
> At 15.32 -0400 1999.06.17, Vicki Brown wrote:
>>Here, we're sorting a list of names by... name.  And we want to keep all
>>the data when we're finished. I'm not sure that the S.T. is, therefore,
>>entirely appropriate.
>
> Agreed.  However, don't confuse "name" with "some part of the name" or
> somesuch.  Sorting by the last letter of the name, for instance, would
> require an ST or somesuch for maximum efficiency.

(lick finger, write on air)

Point :-)
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