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Why sorting is harder than it seems

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Re: Why sorting is harder than it seems

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The problem at hand is not sorting but type safety...brought to you by javascript

It's not quite type safety, it's all about order, and it's definitely not specific to Javascript. Here's Python3:

  >>> sorted([10, 2, math.nan])
  [2, 10, nan]
  >>> sorted([10, math.nan, 2])
  [10, nan, 2]