testing testing... perl question

Adrian Howard adrianh at quietstars.com
Mon Aug 13 12:11:46 BST 2007


On 13 Aug 2007, at 11:31, Aidan Samuel wrote:
[snip]
> When using map and grep I tend to leave off the curly braces and just
> use a comma, but if I try this with sort, I get these odd results.
[snip]

Because sort doesn't let you leave the curly braces off.

     sort SUBNAME LIST
     sort BLOCK LIST
     sort LIST

are the only options. So it's really

	sort($a <=> $b, @a);

:-)

Adrian


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