Re: RFC 76 (v1) Builtin: reduce

[Jeremy Howard]

Bart Lateur wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 07:44:03 +1000, Jeremy Howard wrote:
>
> >> $a and $b were done for speed: quicker to set up those global
> >> variables than to pass values through the stack.
>
> >The solution is to pass args in as $_[0] and $_[1].
>
> sort { $_[0] <=> $_[1] } @list
>
> is very ugly.
>
> I *like* the syntax of
>
> sort { $a <=> $b } @list
>
My original post actually said that the reason for this is that you can then
write:

  sort { ^0 <=> ^1 } @list;

...which is pretty Perlish.