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From: Marc Girod on 8 Jul 2010 04:32
On Jul 7, 7:11 pm, Marc Girod <marc.gi...(a)gmail.com> wrote:

I was pointed the documentation (which I had failed to read well
enough--embarrassing as this is the first paragraph):

In list context, this sorts the LIST and returns the sorted list
value. In scalar context, the behaviour of "sort()" is undefined.

OK. Now I know that 'undefined' may mean 'stack corruption'.
Cave canem... er, caveat emptor, I meant.

The fix is thus:

return wantarray? sort keys %co : scalar keys %co;

Marc
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