Damian Conway wrote:
>
> > %professors{ $a->name cmp $b->name };
> >
> > %students{ $$students{$b}{GPA} <=> $$students{$a}{GPA} };
>
> These already mean something. Please don't "special-case" them.
No they don't.
[david@nicol1 perl]$ perl -le '%nums = (1..20); print %nums{1}'
Can't use subscript on hash deref at -e line 1, near "1}"
(Did you mean $ or @ instead of %?)
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
> Isn't this better handled with a (revamped and faster) tie?
>
> tie %professors, 'Tie::Sorted', ^a->name cmp ^b->name;
>
> tie %students, 'Tie::Sorted',
> $$students{^1}{GPA} <=> $$students{^0}{GPA} };
>
> Damian
It's a shorthand for it.
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