testing testing... perl question

[Frank v Waveren]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 11:31:25AM +0100, Aidan Samuel wrote:
> perl -e '@a = (1..5); print sort $a <=> $b, @a;'
> 012345
>
> 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.
grep and map take an expression or a block as their first argument,
whereas sort takes a block or subname.

To prevent nasty operator precedence surprises, you're best off using
a block instead of an expression, usually.

F