- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:53:57 -0800
- To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On 12/27/12 7:40 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > In JS, the comparator passed to sort() can potentially mutate the array > that's being sorted, or delete it entirely. JS engines cope somehow. Note that per spec the behavior if the comparator mutates the array is undefined. Engines are allowed to go into infinite loops, crash, throw exceptions, whatever. And sometimes do all of the above. > since any problems you can possibly come up with are already present in the existing Array#sort > function. This part is true. -Boris
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