use warnings; use strict; { package Bar; my $obj = Foo->new; print join ", ", sort {$obj->mysort($a,$b,"bar")} qw/x a o/; } { package Foo; sub new { bless {}, shift } use Data::Dump 'pp'; sub mysort { pp \@_; $_[0] cmp $_[1]; } } __END__ [bless({}, "Foo"), "x", "a", "bar"] [bless({}, "Foo"), "x", "o", "bar"] [bless({}, "Foo"), "o", "a", "bar"] x, o, a