How did we let this abomination become the language of the web anyway?pic.twitter.com/dI1SkWKT4i
I know you can solve this problem in JS. The whole point is the problem *should not exist*. Python has no problem sorting an untyped array according to natural sort order, instead of somehow defaulting to string coercion, which is almost never what you want.
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there is no 'natural' sort order for heterogeneous untyped collections. what sort order is 'natural' for [1, '10', null, false, NaN, [], {}] array? i don't want to rely on 'magic' detecting 'right' sort type and prefer consistent method behavior regardless of the data
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There *is* a natural sort order for *homogeneous* untyped collections. Heterogeneous untyped collections should raise an error (something which Python 2 didn't do and Python 3 fixed). Coercing to strings by default is batshit insane.
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Perl > Python in 1995.
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