Re^3: sort +*, @array (misinformation)

That's not an ST, it's at best an Orcish Maneuver. (Or simply shorthand for {$a<=>$b}.)

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Re^4: sort +*, @array (misinformation) by raiph (Deacon) on Dec 10, 2013 at 07:10 UTC
It's not an Orcish Maneuver. The original example `+` (reads "numeric context Whatever") is syntactic sugar for the one arg closure `{+}` which is in turn treated by the P6 sort builtin as a key extractor and results in use of the comparator closure `{$a<=>$b}`. I've realized I didn't make it clear that my response to your challenge contained two parts and you needed to read both to see the ST equivalence. I suspect you didn't read both. I've updated it to try make things clearer. »ö« ^{. o O ( "the celebrity tell-all of the Perl-6 cult?" )}	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^4: sort +*, @array (misinformation)
by raiph (Deacon) on Dec 10, 2013 at 07:10 UTC

The original example +* (reads "numeric context Whatever") is syntactic sugar for the one arg closure {+*} which is in turn treated by the P6 sort builtin as a key extractor and results in use of the comparator closure {$a<=>$b}.

I've realized I didn't make it clear that my response to your challenge contained two parts and you needed to read both to see the ST equivalence. I suspect you didn't read both. I've updated it to try make things clearer.

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