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cloud1
cloud1

Reputation: 326

Behaviour of 'sort' in Clojure

As described in sort documentation it's supposed to return a sorted sequence of the items in collection.

Why it properly sorts [3 1 2 4] but is unable to sort [2010 2014 2018] in ascending order?

$ lein repl
nREPL server started on port 62414 on host 127.0.0.1 - nrepl://127.0.0.1:62414
REPL-y 0.3.7, nREPL 0.2.12
Clojure 1.8.0
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 1.8.0_111-b14
    Docs: (doc function-name-here)
          (find-doc "part-of-name-here")
  Source: (source function-name-here)
 Javadoc: (javadoc java-object-or-class-here)
    Exit: Control+D or (exit) or (quit)
 Results: Stored in vars *1, *2, *3, an exception in *e

user=> (sort [2010 1014 2018])
(1014 2010 2018)
user=> (sort [3 1 2 4])
(1 2 3 4)

UPDATE: it was a typo (1014 instead of 2014) as was pointed in answer.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 63

Answers (1)

Taylor Wood
Taylor Wood

Reputation: 16194

Looks like you have a typo:

(sort [2010 2014 2018])

2014 instead of 1014.

Upvotes: 4

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