if (a < b) { return true; } else if (b < a) { return false; } else { return "A == B, bro" }
20 1 ReplyThat doesn’t work if either one is NaN
6 0 ReplyThat is literally how we implemented an algorithm to check for equivalence in a privacy preserving way. Only that you can't check the results of the evaluation so you have to do 1-(a<b)-(b<a)
2 0 Replytyped languages seeing this
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Why is there no space in front of the ?. At first I didn't even realize that this was supposed to be the ternary operator.
15 0 ReplyOne can tell you're a quality poster for putting a reference to a freaking programming meme. It is an overkill, but a quality overkill.
8 0 ReplyMeanwhile, in the background the compiler optimizes them all to the same result anyway. :P
6 0 ReplyWhy is this its own function to begin with
3 1 ReplyWe don't know what the rest of the function looks like or what the inputs are.
6 0 ReplyHow complex can it be when the results are named
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(when-not (> a b) (> b a))
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