Re: Bubblesort

From	Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Subject	Re: Bubblesort
Date	2016-03-10 23:25 +0100
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On 03/10/2016 22:31, Evertjan. wrote:
> This one nicely sorts only the numerical parts in Chrome:
> 
> var arr = [3,2,5,'break',11,8,.5,'break',7,3];
> var res = arr.sort((a, b) => a - b);
> document.write(res); 
> 
> // Chrome: 2,3,5,break,0.5,8,11,break,3,7
> 
> // Edge: 0.5,2,3,5,break,3,8,11,break,7 
> 
> Seems very illogical in Edge, what is happening?

This comparison function is unsuitable for non-numeric elements. If you
want to sort mixed-type arrays, you need to to define how your elements
compare to each other. Is "break" larger or smaller than 8? Is an object
larger or smaller than `true`?

The expression `a - b` evaluates to NaN if one or both of the operands
are non-numeric strings. As of ES2015, this is specified to be
interpreted as +0 by Array.prototype.sort. In other words, "break" in
your example is seen as equal to every other array element in the array.
That's not a stable sorting algorithm, and the result is what you see in
your test.

- stefan

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Bubblesort jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2016-03-04 02:00 -0800
  Re: Bubblesort "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-03-04 18:53 +0800
    Re: Bubblesort "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-03-04 12:01 +0100
      Re: Bubblesort jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2016-03-04 03:03 -0800
      Re: Bubblesort jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2016-03-04 05:15 -0800
        Re: Bubblesort jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2016-03-04 05:41 -0800
          Re: Bubblesort "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-03-04 21:56 +0800
          Re: Bubblesort Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2016-03-04 15:10 +0100
            Re: Bubblesort jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2016-03-04 07:37 -0800
              Re: Bubblesort Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2016-03-04 17:08 +0100
            Re: Bubblesort jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2016-03-04 07:50 -0800
            Re: Bubblesort jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2016-03-04 07:54 -0800
              Re: Bubblesort Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2016-03-04 17:21 +0100
              Re: Bubblesort Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-03-04 19:26 +0000
                Re: Bubblesort "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-03-04 23:05 +0100
                Re: Bubblesort jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2016-03-05 09:15 -0800
                Re: Bubblesort Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2016-03-08 03:43 +0100
                Re: Bubblesort jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2016-03-08 02:41 -0800
                Re: Bubblesort jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2016-03-08 09:10 -0800
                Re: Bubblesort Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-03-08 23:34 +0100
                Re: Bubblesort Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-03-08 23:46 +0100
                Re: Bubblesort Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-03-09 00:16 +0000
                Re: Bubblesort Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-03-09 02:41 +0100
            Re: Bubblesort Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-03-08 23:35 +0100
              Re: Bubblesort Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2016-03-09 02:38 +0100
                Re: Bubblesort Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-03-09 22:04 +0100
                Re: Bubblesort Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2016-03-10 21:14 +0100
                Re: Bubblesort Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-03-10 22:17 +0100
                Re: Bubblesort "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-03-10 22:31 +0100
                Re: Bubblesort Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2016-03-10 23:25 +0100
                Re: Bubblesort "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-03-11 00:16 +0100
        Re: Bubblesort "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-03-04 21:59 +0800
          Re: Bubblesort "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-03-04 17:12 +0100
          Re: Bubblesort Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-03-05 02:00 +0100
            Re: Bubblesort John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2016-03-05 18:39 +0000
            Re: Bubblesort Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2016-03-05 17:40 -0800
      Re: Bubblesort "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-03-04 21:54 +0800
        Re: Bubblesort "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-03-04 16:59 +0100
    Re: Bubblesort jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2016-03-04 03:04 -0800
      Re: Bubblesort jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2016-03-04 03:55 -0800
    Re: Bubblesort Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-03-05 00:01 +0100
      Re: Bubblesort Aleksandro <aleksandro@gmx.com> - 2016-03-06 18:41 -0300

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