Re: Schwartzian Transform

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 10:24:05AM -0500, John Porter wrote:
> Uri Guttman wrote:
> > records can be strings, or any perl [LH]o[LH]. 
> 
> y/L/A/;
> 
> 
> > for a schwartz (drop the 'ian') or GR transform. 
> 
> Why?  So it conforms with the "Guttman-Rosler" naming standard?

Which *I* would call "Macdonald transform" anyway :-)

(John Macdonald suggested the trick to me at least a year before
the GR paper, and it's there in the Sorting chapter, though it is
not called by any special name...)

> -- 
> John Porter

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