alphacyberranger to Programmer [email protected]English • 2 years agoPick a side Javascriptlemmy.worldmessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1709
arrow-up1672imagePick a side Javascriptlemmy.worldalphacyberranger to Programmer [email protected]English • 2 years agomessage-square41fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink58•edit-22 years agoIt’s not. The default sorter does that, because that way it can sort pretty much anything without breaking at runtime. You can overwrite it easily, though. For the example above you could simply do it like this: [3, 1, 10].sort((a, b) => a - b) Returns: [1, 3, 10]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•2 years ago The default sorter does that, because that way it can sort pretty much anything without breaking at runtime. who the fuck decided that not breaking at runtime was more important than making sense? this js example of [1, 3, 10].sort() vs [1, 3, 10].sort((a, b) => a - b) will be my go to example of why good defaults are important
It’s not. The default sorter does that, because that way it can sort pretty much anything without breaking at runtime. You can overwrite it easily, though. For the example above you could simply do it like this:
[3, 1, 10].sort((a, b) => a - b)Returns:
[1, 3, 10]Holy shit that’s actually true. I just tried it
who the fuck decided that not breaking at runtime was more important than making sense?
this js example of
[1, 3, 10].sort()vs[1, 3, 10].sort((a, b) => a - b)will be my go to example of why good defaults are important