Re: [Fwd: Re: [FWP] sorting text in human-order]

[Dan Sugalski]

At 06:36 PM 12/27/00 -0600, David L. Nicol wrote:

>Is there a perl6 sort committee yet?  AFter reading Cawley's
>method here, I wonder if using it we could make radix-sorts the
>default sort method.

I don't see any reason to not allow this--perhaps a lexically scoped 
assignment to CORE::GLOBAL::sort_func or something of the sort. Or we could 
just provide a selection of sort functions that could be imported with a 
"use sort;" and stuck in the sort function slot:

   use sort qw(radix_sort);
   sort \&radix_sort @data;

more or less...

                                        Dan

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