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Anon subs work in sort as of 5.6.2 (Score:1)

by kappa (294) on 2005.12.07 10:10 (#45028) Homepage Journal

As far as I understand perlfunc, sort accepts refs to anonymous subs. And I use such code all the time:
sort $sorter{$field}, @objs;

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- Re:Anon subs work in sort as of 5.6.2 (Score:1)
  
  by kappa (294)
  
  Sorry, stray comma.
- Re:Anon subs work in sort as of 5.6.2 (Score:2)
  
  by Ovid (2709)
  
  Oops. You're quite right.
  
  perl -Mstrict -le 'my $x= sub{$b<=>$a};print sort $x qw/3 1 2/;'
  
  I tried it along time ago and found out it didn't work. I suppose I should have tried again :)

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