Thanks for the book tip... After skimming through the "Mastering Algorithms" section on heaps and reading through the Heap.pm source, I was able to build a small script that seems to work: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use strict;
use Heap::Binary;
use Heap::Elem::Num;

my $heap = Heap::Binary->new;

for (25,33,107,5,42,29) {
  my $elem = Heap::Elem::Num->new($_);
  $heap->add( $elem );
}

my $min = $heap->extract_minimum();

print "Min: " . $min->val . "\n";   # prints 5

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Unfortunately this doesn't exactly match the usage explained in the POD. It could be just a documentation bug, but it worries me a bit.

-Blake

In reply to Got Heap.pm to work... (was Re2: Heap sorting in perl) by blakem
in thread Heap sorting in perl by blakem

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