•Re: Reverse Alphabetically Sorting an array

I'm not sure why I'd introduce the overhead of calling a subroutine, when "reverse sort" is a natural idiom (it reads like what it does).

Can you motivate your post a little better for me?

Also, keep in mind that recent Perls actually note the "reverse sort" combo, and never bother creating the forward list just to reverse it: instead, "sort" sorts backwards (how clever is that?).

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Re^2: Reverse Alphabetically Sorting an array by matra555 (Monk) on Jan 10, 2005 at 13:09 UTC
I could be mistaken, but if I was maintaining someone elses code, it would save me typing to write a sub and plug the arrays into it, rather than retype them to fit the idiom. Moreover, I did check the relevant categories in Q&A, and didn't see it there.	[reply]
Re^3: Reverse Alphabetically Sorting an array by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 10, 2005 at 19:34 UTC
I don't like adding functions for such overly trivial things. It doesn't take someone else any more effort to read `reverse sort @foo` than to read `reversi @foo`, but with the cute name you used for the latter, they'll have to look up what the function does in the first place. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Reverse Alphabetically Sorting an array by mowgli (Friar) on Jan 10, 2005 at 19:15 UTC
It's not in there because it's obvious. :) -- mowgli	[reply]