On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Mark Schoonover wrote:
>
> --=={First, sort puts its arguments into list context.
>
> Cool so far...
>
> --=={This is then sorted by the
> --=={sort, and two words are anagrams if and only if they agree
> --=={about their sorted letters.
>
> Huh?? This is the part that tripped me up. I don't understand how it knows
> if the new words are valid words.
>
Valid words? The sorted words aren't valid words, if that's what you mean.
But, for example, you can tell elvis and lives are anagrams, because for
each of them sort/./g is (e, i, l, s, v).
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