Re^5: Pearls (not really) of Perl programming

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in reply to Re^4: Pearls (not really) of Perl programming
in thread Pearls (not really) of Perl programming

To clarify, prior to perl 5.005 (!) sort used to use libc's qsort, which would sometimes coredump on certain platforms with pathological return values. But this isn't a concern any longer unless you are stuck with a really old perl.