On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 01:13:32PM -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> PS With a truly lazy sort you'd be able to do...
>
> ($first) = sort { $a wibble $b } @big_list; # in O(n) time.Not necessarely - it would depend on the underlaying sorting mechanism. Shell sort and heap sort for instance don't get the first element first. Abigail
