You can make it simpler with loop control. And I threw in some behaviour tricks, see if you can figure it out. :-) 
# Simple bubble sort, written with an empty loop and with
# some convenience tricks depending on how it is called
sub bbl_sort {
  if (defined wantarray) {
    @_ = wantarray ? @_ : @{shift(@_)};
  }

  SCAN: {
    foreach (0..(@_-2)) {
      if ($_[$_] gt $_[$_+1]) {
        @_[$_, $_+1] = @_[$_+1, $_];
        redo SCAN;
      }
    }
  }

  wantarray ? @_ : [@_];
}

# Try it, showing one of the games
my ($first, $second, $third) = qw(not in order?);
bbl_sort($first, $second, $third);
print map "$_\n", $first, $second, $third;

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While *ahem* inefficient, I think that this probably is more DWIM in different contexts.

In reply to Re (tilly) 1: Simple bubble sort by tilly
in thread Simple bubble sort by IndyZ

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