Re: [FWP] sorting text in human-order

[David L. Nicol]

Marc Lehmann wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 05:31:29AM +0000, "David L. Nicol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
>wrote:
> > I do not know exactly what the perl5 default sort heuristic is, aside that
> > it tries to DWIM both numeric and string data.
> 
> There is no heuristic, the default is simply $a cmp $b, so I am not sure
> what you mean with DWIM ;)

I was wrong.  If it did a crowley/schwartz transform, it would DWIM.

That is what I am proposing:  that perl6 _sort_ do, by default, an implied
crawley/schwartz transform.
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