Re: RFC 124 (v1) Sort order for any hash

[email protected] ("Jeremy Howard")
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.objects
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Damian Conway wrote:
>    > How about
>    >
>    > %students : ( sort = $$students{^1}{GPA} <=> $$students{^0}{GPA} });
>
> Weeeeeeird! :-)
>
> Since you've strayed so close, why not go all the way and make it an
attribute:
>
> my %students : sorted( $ME{^1}{GPA} <=> $ME{^0}{GPA} );
>
> Where the C<sorted> attribute takes a block/sub ref/h.o.f. that expects
> to compare two keys, which would be passed as arguments. Note too the
> (now generalized) use of the proposed $ME variable.
>
Yes, I was thinking the same thing. Except the '$ME' thing--what's that? (I
must have missed that discussion...) What's wrong with @_?
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