Re^5: Why does 'print shift sort @array' not work?

Aren't the following functionally equivalent, i.e. Sort, make an array and a reference to it, dereference it, get the [first] item?

print [sort @array]->[0];
print @{[sort @array]}[0];
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Re^6: Why does 'print shift sort @array' not work? by JavaFan (Canon) on Feb 26, 2009 at 21:36 UTC
Aren't the following functionally equivalent, Technically, no. `[sort @array]->[0];` does return a single element. `@{[sort @array]}[0];` however is a slice with one element. I would have expected it to warn - just as @array[0] will warn. The PC way to write it is: `print ${[sort @array]}[0];` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]