in reply to Re^2: converting strings to ints
in thread converting strings to ints

I honestly don't know for sure, but I assume that as sort is a part of the compiler, it knows what to tweak to ensure that the warning isn't produced. List::Util::reduce() also seems to take care of it. Leastwise the XS version. The PP version also causes the warning, so maybe it's not possible to do from a pure perl module.

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