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Re^2: How can I access object data in a user defined sort cmp function?

by tkguifan (Scribe)
on Jan 29, 2015 at 19:37 UTC ( [id://1114967]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: How can I access object data in a user defined sort cmp function?
in thread How can I access object data in a user defined sort cmp function?

This is not the same thing. You are sorting the objects themselves rather than a hash stored within an object. This is a cheat because now $a and $b are object references, so they speak for themselves. If $a and $b are simply keys of a hash, the sort function has no clue to what object they belong. However it is true, as others pointed out, that if I write the compare function in-line instead of a separate function, the in-line code sees the variables of the sub ( including the $self with which it was called ), so it has access to the object.

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