this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2023

913 points (98.7% liked)

Programmer Humor

19589 readers

550 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

Keep content in english
No advertisements
Posts must be related to programming or programmer topics

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

Feyter@programming.dev

anzo@programming.dev

BurningTurtle@programming.dev

pylapp@programming.dev

913

I'll just sort it myself (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

50 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wrong. JavaScript sort's default comparison function always converts to strings.

[–] jormaig@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only if one of them is a string right? If you have only numbers then it works fine right? Right? (Please say that I'm right 😭)

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No. It always compares by converting to string. I actually think this is more consistent then having different behaviour if you have a string somewhere in your list.

Basically the default comparator is a.sort((a, b) => `${a}` < `${b}` ? -1 : 1).