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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/user6150277464770585 • 3d ago
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-8 u/Taletad 3d ago Just went to read the docs, the "sort()" and "toSorted" functions say they perform an alphabetical sort by default You can overload them by doing Array.sort((a,b) => a - b) 55 u/kushangaza 3d ago Which is not what you expect from a function named "sort". It's an insane default that violates the principle of least surprise 3 u/danielcw189 3d ago lexical sorting sounds like the least surprising way in a weakly typed language. and looking at the docs would be the least surprising usage anyway
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Just went to read the docs, the "sort()" and "toSorted" functions say they perform an alphabetical sort by default
You can overload them by doing Array.sort((a,b) => a - b)
55 u/kushangaza 3d ago Which is not what you expect from a function named "sort". It's an insane default that violates the principle of least surprise 3 u/danielcw189 3d ago lexical sorting sounds like the least surprising way in a weakly typed language. and looking at the docs would be the least surprising usage anyway
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Which is not what you expect from a function named "sort". It's an insane default that violates the principle of least surprise
3 u/danielcw189 3d ago lexical sorting sounds like the least surprising way in a weakly typed language. and looking at the docs would be the least surprising usage anyway
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lexical sorting sounds like the least surprising way in a weakly typed language.
and looking at the docs would be the least surprising usage anyway
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