On 13 February 2016 at 08:38, timothy adigun <2teezp...@gmail.com> wrote: > In your analogy, if hashes are like folder, keys and values are like what? > Name of folders. If yes, can those be sorted? If yes, they you have just > made my point.. :)
Keys are files. Values are file contents. But no, the folders themselves cannot be "Sorted", sorting modifies the *property* of the thing. What you are doing, is sorting how it is *displayed* If you used low-level mechanics to look at how the files are laid out on the filesystem, the files in those folders wouldn't necessarily even be stored near each other. "Soriting" them as such would be an expensive mechanism moving stuff all over your hard drive. All you're doing is sorting the *view* of it. Not the data itself. -- Kent KENTNL - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
