Re^3: Sorting, recursion, and tail-call optimizations

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in thread Sorting, recursion, and tail-call optimizations

Well, this is purely speculation, but I was just thinking that maybe there was an error generated that was somehow internal to the sort function and wasn't elegantly passed along to $!. For what it's worth, the error received on OSX was "Bus error".

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Re^4: Sorting, recursion, and tail-call optimizations by GrandFather (Saint) on Jan 06, 2006 at 18:47 UTC
"Bus error" is likely to translate to "Invalid access": using a bad pointer. DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel	[reply]

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