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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)
if (a < b) {
    return true;
} else if (b < a) {
    return false;
} else {
    return "A == B, bro"
}
[–] Lachy 6 points 1 year ago

That doesn’t work if either one is NaN

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

typed languages seeing this

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile, in the background the compiler optimizes them all to the same result anyway. :P

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Why is this its own function to begin with

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

How complex can it be when the results are named a and b?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
(when-not (> a b) (> b a))