Richard Gaskin wrote:
But I guess I'm stuck on the old (outdated?) notion that functions are evaluated before their result is used in the calling command,
It's still doing that. The function is evaluated first, before the sort assigns it a position. The difference here is that "each" is evaluated for each element that is being sorted; the function runs once per line.
I'm certain that you're not crazy,
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