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Re:Blessed Are the JavaScript Developers by asdf-asdf-asdf on Monday August 31, 2020 @01:08PM (#24333525)
unfortunately it's not possible to change the behavior because of backward compatibility.

maybe we could have a `sort2()` method that works differently.

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Re:Blessed Are the JavaScript Developers by brundolf on Monday August 31, 2020 @03:24PM (#24335056)
Yes, this would be the standard JavaScript approach to this kind of problem. See ===, "let", backtick-strings, Map, and most recently, Temporal.
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Re:Blessed Are the JavaScript Developers by SwiftyBug on Monday August 31, 2020 @01:35PM (#24333862)
`actuallySort()`
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