Got it. I missed that the signature of the SortFunc does not include a return
value. Thanks!
> On Sep 9, 2024, at 12:31 PM, Jan Mercl <0xj...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 9, 2024 at 9:24 PM P Padil <ppadil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Can someone please explain to me why the following doesn’t work:
>>
>> slices.SortFunc(ilps, func(u, w *big.Int) int { return u.Cmp(w) })
>>
>> I get:
>> slices.SortFunc(ilps, (func(u, w *big.Int) int literal)) (no value) used as
>> value
>
> Providing a complete, self-contained, runnable code help others to help you.
>
> Without that I can only guess: you have used the non-value, as
> indicated by the error message, as a RHS in an assignment. But its
> signature shows it does not return any value:
> https://pkg.go.dev/slices#SortFunc
>
> tl;dr: SortFunc sorts the underlying array of the argument slice but
> it does not return the slice.
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