in reply to Re^2: The High Price of Golf, and A Surprise
in thread The High Price of Golf, and A Surprise

Small note which makes no difference to the deparsed syntax is that sort() used in a void context is a no-op (sp?). So all those sort()s could be deparsed down to 
$ perl -MO=Deparse,x7 -e'sort { $b <=> $a } @x'
-e syntax OK

[download]

_________
broquaint

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^4: The High Price of Golf, and A Surprise
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Sep 07, 2002 at 18:27 UTC
    The output would have been empty then; it is apparently not considered a NOP either: 
    $ perl -MO=Deparse,x7 -e'1;'
'???';
-e syntax OK

    [download]
    ('???' is what B::Deparse produces when something gets optimized away.) I'm guessing that's because a sort may have side effects f.ex with tied arrays or inside the callback (if there is one), or something to that effect.

    Makeshifts last the longest.

[reply]
[d/l]

In Section Meditations