Re: Hamming minigolf post mortem
Juho Snellman <[email protected]>
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On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 01:03:06AM -0400, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
> sort { $a > $b } @list doesn't even work reliably when you're only
> interested in the smallest element. Consider sorting a list containing two
> elements, 1 and 3. The outcome will depend on which value is used as $a
> and which as $b. 3 > 1 will return 1, and the result will be (1, 3). 1 >
> 3, however, will return 0, and the result could be either (1, 3) or (3, 1)!
It works reliably in the context of 5.8.0. Try it out! (I tested with
a shuffled array of two million elements before deciding that it wasn't
just a fluke).
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Juho Snellman