Re: xsub apidoc ordering RFC

["Peter Haworth" <pmh edison ioppublishing com>]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:15:19 -0500 (EST), Ross McFarland wrote:
> muppet said:
> > to further exacerbate things, what if the (get_|set_) prefix was
> > ignored for the sake of sorting? that way get and set would be together,
> > and the things they set would be alphabetized.
>
> i think the answer might be to replace set/get with nothing, remove them.
> but i don't know what that will do for the alphebetical order, i'll have
> to play some more with it.

How about moving the get_/set_ to the end, so that each pair is sorted
consistently?

  @$xsubs=sort { 
    for(my $at=$a->{symname}, my $bt=$b->{symname}){
      s/^.+:://;
      s/^new/\x00/;

      s/^(get|set)_(.*)/${2}_$1/ for $at,$bt;
      # Or replace with /\xff${2}_$1/ to sort all accessors at the end
    }

    $at cmp $bt;
  } @$xsubs;

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