My answer was tongue firmly in cheek. Note the tone and the :)'s scattered about. But please, submit a patch.

To clear up a misconception though, your "action at a distance" horror scenario there won't happen. No sir. $a and $b are (apparently) local'd to the block: 

@list=qw( one two three four five );

$a="Hello";
$b="World";
sort { $a <=> $b } @list;
print "$a $b";  # Hello World

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I knew this. Several others in channel this morning knew this. But in an ironic twist of events, I can't find where that localization is documented. I think I see it in the Perl source...but not in the docs.

In reply to Mistaken notions of $a/$b strict by clintp
in thread use strict won't require explicit name for all variables? by Biker

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