Why sorting is harder than it seems (opens in new tab)

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5 pointsdsagal3y ago2 comments

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The problem at hand is not sorting but type safety...brought to you by javascript

It's not quite type safety, it's all about order, and it's definitely not specific to Javascript. Here's Python3:

  >>> sorted([10, 2, math.nan])
  [2, 10, nan]
  >>> sorted([10, math.nan, 2])
  [10, nan, 2]

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5 pointsdsagal3y ago2 comments

The problem at hand is not sorting but type safety...brought to you by javascript

dsagalOP3y ago

It's not quite type safety, it's all about order, and it's definitely not specific to Javascript. Here's Python3:

  >>> sorted([10, 2, math.nan])
  [2, 10, nan]
  >>> sorted([10, math.nan, 2])
  [10, nan, 2]

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