What is the goal here?

Using <=> is clever, I think. And by that I mean that it invokes a less common set of symbols to come to a result in a surprising and elegant way.

I'm not sure that is good, though. Assuming that if either variable is zero you should return 0, my first thought was 

if ($left > 0) {
  if ($right > 0) { # both pos
    return 1
  }
} elsif ($left < 0) {
  if ($right < 0) { # both neg
    return 1
  }
}
return 0;

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That is, anchor one, see if the other is the same, and if so return 1; otherwise, fall through and return 0.

I think this is bad because its a whole bunch of lines. On the other hand, I think its good because its dead obvious, and probably pretty fast (fewer compares and jumps than even the double '<=>' version).

ymmv. "What is good?", asked jesting Pilate, not waiting for an answer.

--woody

In reply to Re^2: Seeing if two numbers have the same sign by WoodyWeaver
in thread Seeing if two numbers have the same sign by grinder

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