Originally posted on reddit seven months ago.

Why is there no space in front of the ?. At first I didn’t even realize that this was supposed to be the ternary operator.

if (a < b) {
    return true;
} else if (b < a) {
    return false;
} else {
    return "A == B, bro"
}

That doesn’t work if either one is NaN

darcy
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typed languages seeing this

That is literally how we implemented an algorithm to check for equivalence in a privacy preserving way. Only that you can’t check the results of the evaluation so you have to do 1-(a<b)-(b<a)

(when-not (> a b) (> b a))
tuto
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1Y

This is missing one at the very top that’s just:

return a < b;
r00ty
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Meanwhile, in the background the compiler optimizes them all to the same result anyway. :P

One can tell you’re a quality poster for putting a reference to a freaking programming meme. It is an overkill, but a quality overkill.

Why is this its own function in the first place

MrJukes
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We don’t know what the rest of the function looks like or what the inputs are.

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