Apparently this is akin to a schwartzian transform ...

How can that possibly be?

Given that the ST allows you to sort the data by a user defined piece of secondary data, and a user-defined comparison strategy -- and that secondary data needn't even be derived from the actual data in anyway -- and that construct clearly has no mechanism for providing either.

For example, how could that construct do this:

my $today = time; 
$today -= $today % 86400 + 43200;; ## midday

my @dates = map $today + 86400 * $_, 0 .. 364;;

my @ordered = map $_->[0], sort { 
        $a->[1] cmp $b->[1] || $b->[2] cmp $a->[2] 
} map[
    $_, substr(scalar localtime($_),0,3), substr(scalar localtime($_),
+5,3) 
], @dates;;

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I can't think of any good reason to sort the epoch dates of the next year of days, by the spelling of their days ascending and the spelling of their months descending, but if I wanted to, the ST allows me to do so.

But there is no way that construct will.

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In reply to Re: sort +*, @array by BrowserUk
in thread sort +*, @array by raiph

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