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Test Your EQ #145— Answer

Answer 9

The map - sort - map sequence is known as the "Schwartzian Transform", in honor of its inventor, Randal Schwartz. The idea is to extract the sort key once from each record so that a simple lookup can be used by the sort subroutine.

Contributor: Dave Tweed

Published: August-2002

   

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