Because we are not just specifying what part(s) of the elements do we want to compare, but also how!

cmp may be fine for you English speaking dudes, but it's basically useless to the rest of the world. Besides even if we did keep to cmp and <=>, what's some other, reasonably succinct and reasonably comprehensible way to write sort {$a->{age} <=> $a->{age} || $b->{name} cmp $a->{name}} @array ?

What is the operation you'd want to apply to the elements so that you can then sort the results using one of the only two types of comparisons you seem to want to get restricted to?

Jenda
1984 was supposed to be a warning,
not a manual!

In reply to Re: Notation of sort function by Jenda
in thread Notation of sort function by Alphaphi

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