On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 06:14:25AM -0700, John Douglas Porter wrote: > > Abigail wrote: > > Andrew Savige wrote: > > > I was just wondering if it would be more > > > accurate to describe this Python decorate-sort-undecorate (DSU) > > > thingy as a Guttman-Rosler transform? > > > My understanding is that the GR > > > transform always uses the bald sort without arguments while the > > > Schwartzian transform always uses a sort block. Is that right? > > > > Yes. > > Well, yes, for Perl, but no for Python. > > Python Johnny said "sort[ing] by its builtin sort method > without arguments", which makes us think GRT, but he also > said "an auxiliary list is first built", which implies the > general ST.
I think you're misunderstanding the poster's use of "auxiliary list". Both ST and GRT use an auxiliary list. Ronald
