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Re: patch to Porting/checkAUTHORS.pl

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From:
Father Chrysostomos
Date:
April 8, 2012 14:19
Subject:
Re: patch to Porting/checkAUTHORS.pl
Message ID:
274D8661-50F9-4841-A3D0-3CFDA9B4EE59@cpan.org
Tom Christiansen said:
> Especially given that v5.16 has fc, it's a bit embarrassing to see
> 
>     sort { lc $a cmp lc $b }
> 
> But even better than faking it with fc is using the real thing.

Unfortunately, your patch will slow down the porting tests, which are
already too slow if you ask me.

In this script, the exact sorting is not crucial.  For the tests, the
only thing that matters is that the order is the same in each run.


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