Dan Sugalski writes: : At 3:11 PM -0800 4/3/02, Larry Wall wrote: : >Piers Cawley writes: : >: Jonathan Scott Duff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : >: : >: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 11:27:10AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: : >: >> They are assumed to be declared in alphabetical order. Whoa! you say, : >: >> that could get confusing. It surely can. But if you're doing : >: >> something complicated enough that alphabetical order would be : >: >> confusing, don't use this shorthand. : >: > : >: > Alphabetically or asciibetically? I mean, are these functionally : >: > equivalent? : > : >It's utf8ical, actually. : : That should be Unicodely, I expect. But strict unicode sorting, or do : we respect the locale?
Strict, but doesn't really matter. Nobody sane will use anything other than $^a and $^b. Larry
