Re^5: implicit sort disables a chained subroutine?


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Re^5: implicit sort disables a chained subroutine?

by Aristotle (Chancellor)

on Jan 14, 2005 at 09:27 UTC ( [id://422178]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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Ah, you meant coderef vs bareword as in syntax, not semantics.

I agree that this behaviour is surprising. I guess that goes to show it isn't that bad a special case in practice, probably because comparator blocks are used too frequently for it to matter too much. Back in Perl4 without anonymous functions and prototypes available I guess this special case was actually good.

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