> So maybe we have some or all of:
>
>     .keys     .sortkeys
>     .values   .sortvalues
>     .kv               .sortkv
>     .pairs    .sortpairs
>
> Possible variations: .skeys, .ordkeys, etc.  Also could flip the
> default and make .keys sort by default and then you use .rawkeys to get
> unordered--shades of PHP.

Taking a page from Template Toolkit.

      .keys  # same as perl5
      .sort  # the sorted keys

I know that it isn't quite parallel with Array.sort and it doesn't provide 
for .sortkv or .sort pairs, but it might be an option.

Paul

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