So, let's say, purely for the sake of argument, that I have a function like:

sub rv (@) { reverse @_; };
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and I want to call it in this context:

sort rv @list;
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Perl won't let me because it thinks I'm trying to use &rv as the comparison function for sort. I could say:

sort(rv(@list));
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but that doesn't look as cool.

This works:

sort reverse @list;
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How do get perl to treat &rv the same way?

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This has been sitting at the back of my mind for the past seven years, and I have finally come back to it.

I wasn't clear in my original question on what I wanted to know, and as a result all the answers missed the point.

I don't want to put any of the code above in a program. I want to understand why this difference exists.