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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: Overflow, integers and strings
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"Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> writes:
<snip>
> Build and think modular:
>
> function arraySwap(a, b) { // 2 different arrays expected
>    var tempArrName = b; 
>    b = a;
>    a = tempArrName;
>    // the name tempArrName will be garbagecollected automagically
> };
>
> function arraySwapIfSmaller(a, b) { // arrays by reference
>    if (arrCompareSmaller(a, b))
>       arraySwap(a, b);
> };

I don't think this does what you think it does.  arraySwap has no effect
on the arrays that are passed as parameters.

<snip>
-- 
Ben.