in reply to Schwartzian Transform vs. Building Hash of Function Results, Then Sorting on Function Results
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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