in reply to Clever vs. Readable

What about:
my ($min) = sort( $a, $b );

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Re^2: Clever vs. Readable
by betterworld (Curate) on Aug 10, 2008 at 16:34 UTC

    Only this sorts alphabetically. And it's complicated to change the sort type because $a and $b are lexical variables here.

    Apart from that, it looks rather clever, too.

      You are absolutely correct. My bad :)