I agree, it would not be easy. Not trying to argue about this, just thinking what the root cause is, other than that Perl does not support strong type.

I am thinking the other important thing contributed to this problem, is that Perl is not really OO. Think in this way, in a OO language, like Java or c++, a list would always contain the virtually the same type of element, even though they might actually be quite different, but you can always use the sort defined on the weakest type, (in Perl, the worst would be go back to the Object class, which is the base for all).

In a OO language, the realization of what is contained in a list, is obviously not a problem.

In reply to Re: Re: sort hash keys as numbers and maybe even more... by pg
in thread sort hash keys as numbers and maybe even more... by pg

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