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- Subject: Re: Sort function modifies the table being sorted?
- From: Egor Skriptunoff <egor.skriptunoff@...>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 01:26:49 +0300
On 6/14/12, Jorge <xxopxe@gmail.com> wrote:
> Abusing the comparison operator of a sorting function is a classic.
> http://www.robweir.com/blog/2010/02/microsoft-random-browser-ballot.html
Thank you, Jorge.
The article is quite interesting.
Such a simple and innocent mistake leads to very strange behaviour of code.
It is very like to spirit of ideas from "Underhanded C Contest".
“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by
stupidity.” :)
