Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > The other strawman I use is "sort in a scalar context might just > play Nethack". Can you implement that instead? A patch is attached. It's incompatible with David's 'sortedness' patch, and fails if nethack is not in the user's path. Configure should be expanded to detect rogue-like games that are available on the system, so that an appropriate one can be started if nethack is not installed. My original goal was for sort to play nethack when called in a void context, however it appears that Perl is smart enough to optimise this instance away. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Fenwick <pjf@perltraining.com.au> | http://perltraining.com.au/ Director of Training | Ph: +61 3 9354 6001 Perl Training Australia | Fax: +61 3 9354 2681