On Wed Sep 24 17:24:16 2008, pmichaud wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 04:53:54PM -0700, chromatic wrote:
> > On Tuesday 23 September 2008 09:35:05 Moritz Lenz wrote:
> > 
> > > %hash.pairs.sort needs infix:<cmp> to work properly with Pair as
input.
> > >
> > > It should be easy to add a multi that does this by first comparing the
> > > key, and if they are equal the value.
> [...]
> Alas, there was another thread that shows that Parrot's 'sort'
> method can't seem to handle comparison functions that have :multi
> on them.
> 
> Once that's fixed (or we come up with an alternative 'sort'),
> then this patch or something like it will probably work.

Now fixed in r33959, by providing an alternate interface to sort (one
that also produces a stable sort).

Closing ticket, thanks!

Pm


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