Re: Sorting in-place

[pcg]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 05:48:10PM -0400, Ronald J Kimball 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > sub sort_lists {
> >    for (@_) {
> >       sort @$_;
> >    }
> > }
> 
> That's actually in void context.

not in all versions of perl ;) anyway, try it with "if", which works in
all versions:

  sort @x unless $no_sort;

changes behaviour depending on wether it's the last statement in a block or
not.

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