Re: Sort function modifies the table being sorted?

[Jorge <xxopxe@...>]

On 14/06/12 07:23, Peter Cawley wrote:
> As has been said, the takeaway message is that table.sort is a black
> box. Unsorted array goes in, said array goes through a sequence of
> contortions, and then a sorted array comes out the other side. In
> particular, those contortions could be anything, so your order
> function shouldn't expect the array to be in any reasonable state.

Abusing the comparison operator of a sorting function is a classic.

http://www.robweir.com/blog/2010/02/microsoft-random-browser-ballot.html


Jorge