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From: jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Arithmetic functions
Message-ID: <1991Feb26.080757.21645@pronto.mh.nl>
Date: 26 Feb 91 08:07:57 GMT
References: <1991Feb20.113935.14427@pronto.mh.nl> <2069019@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
	<1991Feb23.001155.3630@convex.com>
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In-Reply-To: tchrist@convex.com's message of 23 Feb 91 00:11:55 GMT

In article <1991Feb23.001155.3630@convex.com> tchrist@convex.com (Tom Christiansen) writes:
>  What's wrong with:	
> 
>      $s  = (sort(("def","ghi","abc","jkl")))[0];

..etc..

Nothing wrong, except that you have to spell it out (or define them)
over and over and over...

And, of course:

>  Efficient numeric operations in perl?

Precisely.

I don't even think of using sort to get the max or min of two numbers.

	Johan
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