Re^3: Advanced Sorting - GRT - Guttman Rosler Transform

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I don't believe that the GRT can be sufficiently generalized in any practical sense to cover all problems

Given a function to convert floats to lexicographically ordered strings, you should be able do a GRT on any series of || linked cmp and <=> operator operators. Are there any antisymmetric, transitive, total relations that can't be written as a series of || linked cmp and <=> operators?

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Re^4: Advanced Sorting - GRT - Guttman Rosler Transform by JavaFan (Canon) on Aug 18, 2009 at 10:15 UTC
Easy. Imagine you have to sort objects. Objects written by someone who understands encapsulation (hence, unlikely to be a native Perl programmer). So, there's no way to compare two objects using an operator - you've got to call a method in one of the objects, passing the other as argument, for instance: `@sorted = sort {$a->cmp($b)} @unsorted;` [download] I doubt you can either use a ST or a GRT (I am one of the people who don't think GRT is a special case of ST) to sort this.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^4: Advanced Sorting - GRT - Guttman Rosler Transform
by JavaFan (Canon) on Aug 18, 2009 at 10:15 UTC

@sorted = sort {$a->cmp($b)} @unsorted;
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