Re: [Haskell-cafe] Tuesday Morning Games (was: Friday Afternoon Play:) The Burrows Wheeler Transformation

On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 09:53:09AM +0100, Ketil Malde wrote:

sortBy ((. tail . fst) . compare . tail . fst)

this would actually be a nice thing to have in the standard libraries: sortOn :: (Ord b) => (a -> b) -> [a] -> [a] sortOn f = sortBy $ (.f) . compare . f kibitzing (: matthias