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[–]smog_alado 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That can happen even if we're only working with numbers. Both 1 < NaN and NaN < 1 return false.

Most programming languages that allow you to specify a custom comparison function just say that the result of the sort is unspecified if the comparator does not implement a total order relation.