Re: weird behaviour of table.sort

[Ico Doornekamp <lua@...>]

* On 2010-06-28 Wolfgang Pupp <wolfgang.pupp@gmail.com> wrote  :

> local function lesser(a, b)
>   assert(a and b)
>   return true
> end
> table.sort({1,2,3,4}, lesser)
> 
> The assertion fails- only if you remove it, you'll the expected
> 'invalid order function for sorting'- error.
> IMHO, it would be desirable to change this behaviour, that is, if a
> table does not contain nil- elements, the comparison function should
> never get nil as argument, either.

You broke the contract: your comparison function lies to table.sort(). So
why should table.sort() act reasonable to you ?

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