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Re: [perl #69384] numericness failure in sorting

From:
Zefram
Date:
September 26, 2009 13:02
Subject:
Re: [perl #69384] numericness failure in sorting
Message ID:
20090926200157.GL14049@fysh.org
Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
>2009/9/26 Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>:
>> On a quick test with blead, just removing those two lines from S_sortcv
>> gave precisely the behaviour that I'm proposing.
>
>Does it break any test ?

No.  Apparently the current error case isn't being tested for.  Attached
is a patch that makes the change in behaviour, with corresponding test
and documentation.

-zefram

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