An it wouldn't make any difference in your case whether the comparator function were passed to sort as a coderef

Hmm. I thought it would. If first parameter to sort was either a coderef or a string (constant) or bareblock, it would take it as a comparator, but if it is a bareword, then it's a (user or builtin) function that gets called and it results get passed to sort with the default comparator would be used.

That would treat user functions the same as builtins are currently treated as with split in the example I showed.

But you are right, that water passed under the bridge a long time since, and it is not going to change course now.

It surprises me that I never encoutered this before.

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Love the truth but pardon error.

In reply to Re^4: implicit sort disables a chained subroutine? by BrowserUk
in thread implicit sort disables a chained subroutine? by BrowserUk

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