On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 14:14, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> Gosh. It takes quite a lot of effort to contrive a test that actually
> demonstrate this. The simplest scenario I can think of is tied values.
Balderdash.
[david@plaza david]$ perl -le '@Ar = qw/5one 4one 5two 4two/; print
foreach sort {$b <=> $a} @Ar'
5two
5one
4two
4one
[david@plaza david]$ perl -le '@Ar = qw/5one 4one 5two 4two/; $default =
0; print foreach sort {$b <=> $a or $default} @Ar'
5one
5two
4one
4two
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david nicol
"People used to be able to read my thoughts, but
it doesn't appear to work any more. Should I eat less cheese?"
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