Re: plperl & sort

Alex Hunsaker wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 15:02, Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 14:43, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>>
> But by all means if you can come up with a robust way of allowing
>
>>> the more traditional way of calling sort routines, send it in.
>>>
>> Well its not just sort its anything that uses main:: right?
>>
>
> Err no you're right its only builtins that use main:: sort being the
> only one I know of off the top of my head... its a shame
> PLContainer->share('$main::a'); does not seem to work..
>

$a and $b are magical *package* variables. See "perldoc perlvar". This
has nothing whatever to do with main::

cheers

andrew