But it needs some major syntax work so it can feel more like it's a part of the language instead of a library function. Not, mind, that I think Perl's syntax needs to be changed at all to accommodate.
Since everyone's well past mad here and deep into drug-induced brain damage territory...
If you're *really* looking to get fancy, why not just allow the sort specification to be done with SQL? Comfortable, well-understood, already has a decade or so of stupid things welded into it (so everyone can stop trying to think up new stupid things to weld in), and there are several grammars for it so it'd be no work to speak of for me.
Heck, you could even unify map, grep, and sort and, if you fed in a list of pair lists or hashes, return parts of each record^Wlist element rather than the whole thing.
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