alphacyberranger@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 1 年前Pick a side Javascriptlemmy.worldimagemessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1695arrow-down136
arrow-up1659arrow-down1imagePick a side Javascriptlemmy.worldalphacyberranger@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 1 年前message-square39fedilink
minus-squareKonlanx@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up59arrow-down1·edit-21 年前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]
minus-squarenewIdentity@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 年前Holy shit that’s actually true. I just tried it
minus-squaresociablefish@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 年前 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
minus-squaresociablefish@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 年前who uses utf 16? people either use utf 8 (for files) or utf 32 (for string class O(1) random access)
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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 importantwho uses utf 16? people either use utf 8 (for files) or utf 32 (for string class O(1) random access)