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  • \$\begingroup\$ Something is wrong. $a=;? Also, you can skip the parens of sort and the space after print. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Mar 8, 2011 at 16:00
  • \$\begingroup\$ @Tim, the genius who developed this platform for sharing code over the net decided that in code blocks people should have to escape less-than characters. But hey, no big deal: it's not as though anyone uses them in code, right? Keeps catching me out. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Mar 8, 2011 at 16:32
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    \$\begingroup\$ Ok, I removed the downvote. You might want to use the code formatting in the future, i.e. indent code with four spaces. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Mar 8, 2011 at 16:46
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    \$\begingroup\$ Ok, so there are three ways of formatting code (one inline and two block), and both the block ones are inconvenient in different ways. Sigh. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Mar 8, 2011 at 18:13