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#!pil

=pod

=head1 DESCRIPTION

This is a bottom-up mergesort from the Algorithms 
book (see READTHEM file). It was first translated 
from Haskell to PIL^N by tewk, and then finished 
off by myself.

=head1 AUTHOR

Stevan Little <stevan@iinteractive.com>

=cut

&compare := -> $a, $b { 
    $a`eq($b)`if_else(
        -> { 0 }, 
        -> { 
            $a`lt($b)`if_else(
                -> { -1 }, 
                -> { 1 }
            );
        }
    ); 
};

&split := -> @lst, @acc { 
    &redo := &?SUB;            
    @lst`length()`eq(0)`if_else(
        -> { @acc },
        -> { &redo`(@lst`splice(1), @acc`push([ @lst`fetch(0) ])) } 
    ); 
};   

&merge := -> @l1, @l2 { 
    &redo := &?SUB;
    @l1`is_nil()`if_else(
        -> { @l2 },
        -> {
            @l1`is_empty()`if_else(
                -> { @l2 },
                -> { 
                    @l2`is_nil()`if_else(
                        -> { @l1 },
                        -> {
                            @l2`is_empty()`if_else(
                                -> { @l1 },
                                -> { 
                                    $hl1 := @l1`fetch(0);
                                    $hl2 := @l2`fetch(0);
                                    &compare`($hl1, $hl2)`lt(0)`if_else(
                                        ->{ 
                                            [ $hl1 ]`concat( &redo`( @l1`splice(1), @l2 ) ) 
                                        },
                                        ->{ 
                                            [ $hl2 ]`concat( &redo`( @l1, @l2`splice(1) ) ) 
                                        }
                                    ); 
                                } 
                            );
                        }
                    ); 
                } 
            );
        }
    ); 
};                           

&mergepairs := -> @lst { 
    &redo := &?SUB;
    @lst`length()`le(1)`if_else(
        -> { @lst`fetch(0) },
        -> { 
            &merge`(
                &merge`(@lst`fetch(0), @lst`fetch(1)), 
                &redo`(@lst`splice(2))
            );
        } 
    );
};           

&mergesort := -> @lst { 
	-> @lst {
	    &redo := &?SUB;            
	    @lst`length()`eq(1)`if_else(
	        -> { @lst`fetch(0) },
	        -> { &mergepairs`(@lst) } 
	    ) 
	}`(&split`(@lst, []))
};


#&mergesort`(['h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', ' ', 'w', 'o', 'r', 'l', 'd']);

&mergesort`([33, 1212, 9, 1, 3433, 2, 3, 7, 9, 9, 45, 35, 27, 44, 10101, 0, -50]);