Re: [FWP] sorting text in human-order

[Piers Cawley]

"David L. Nicol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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.

That's 'Cawley'. And I really don't think it would be a good idea. At
all.