Hi, All, Quick sanity check, if you please.
Before I start to trying to merge my perl5 Net::IPAddress::Util into bradclawsie's perl6 IP::Parse, I want to make sure I'm not being crazy with the way stringification and cmp are overloaded. IP Addresses exist "on the wire" and naturally sort as 128-bit Network-Order numbers. IP Addresses are naturally read & written by humans as strings. To accommodate both these things, Net::IPAddress::Util overloads '""' as stringification and <=> as N128-ification (well, actually the technobabble is deeper, but that's what it amounts to). The tricky bit is the overloading of the cmp operator. Since perl5 (and IIRC perl6) uses cmp by default in the sort code block, my assumption has always been "if people are sorting IP Addresses they want to sort 'naturally' according to the sensible semantics", so cmp has been overloaded to do the same thing as <=>. Is this indeed DWIM, or is it insane troll logic? -- P/PW/PWBENNETT
