On Dec 11, Paul Johnson said:

>On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:52:53PM +0100, Jenda Krynicky wrote:
>
>> From: Rob Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >
>> > > @website[
>> > >             map  $_->[0],
>> > >             sort { $b->[1] <=> $a->[1] }
>> > >             map  [ $_, $array[$_] ],
>> > >             0 .. $#array
>> > >         ] = 1 .. @array;
>>
>> This is something most Perl programmers would have a hard time
>> understanding. The construct comes from functional languages.
>
>OK.  I admit it.  I like functional programming :-)

No one has noted yet that the Schwartzian transform here is TOTALLY
redundant.

  @website[
    sort { $array[$b] <=> $array[$a] } 0 .. $#array
  ] = 1 ..@array;

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