Subtly: return s[i] > s[j] Is the right sort func
I think it'd be recommended to look at the generics slices package, which also has a sort On Tuesday, December 6, 2022 at 6:39:29 PM UTC-8 hey...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > I have this very simple sorting code: > > s := make([]int, 0, 100) > for i := 1; i <= 20; i++ { > s = append(s, i) > } > sort.Slice(s, func(i, j int) bool { return i > j }) > log.Print(s) > > I expect it to print numbers in reverse order, since items with larger > index numbers should be at the front. However, at lease in go1.19.3, it > prints > > [9 1 8 5 16 3 20 2 10 7 12 13 14 15 6 4 19 18 17 11] > > I guess I must have misunderstood how the sort package works, but > rereading sort's doc multiple time doesn't help answer the question. > > Could anyone shed some light? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/47074e6b-b1f2-447e-b7aa-645b9a504913n%40googlegroups.com.