Re: Sort on linkedlists with double values (inside main list)

On Tue, 21 May 2024 at 14:01, Paul King <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 3:13 PM M.v.Gulik <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > After fixing my local bug I rechecked the "*.sort{ a, b -> a.y == b.y ?
> -a.y <=> -b.y : a.x <=> b.x }" variant.
> > Same result/conclusion.
>
> In terms of referencing the properties, you'd want to swap the order
> you have above, i.e. you'd not want to have y ? y : x but rather y ? x
> : y or x ? y : x.
>

Darn. Yea, your right. I messed it up (again) :-/ .
After fixing that (and triple checking) it worked like advertised.
Thanks again.

On Tue, 21 May 2024 at 14:01, Paul King <[email protected]> wrote:

> Also, the "*.sort" would only be needed if you have lists of lists of maps.
>

Ditching that "<varname>.sort{ a, b -> a.x <=> b.x }.sort{ a, b -> -a.y <=>
-b.y}" idea of mine.
(might play around with it a bit more on a rainy day to see in which cases
it would fail, just out of curiosity.)