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ridiculous_fish on Oct 28, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code y...

Unfortunately it's also incorrect! It discards NaNs, as they are neither < nor >=.

maweki on Oct 28, 2019 | [–]

In the example there was no talking about floating point numbers. The ordered type _has_ a total ordering as shown by the Ord typeclass restriction.

fulafel on Oct 28, 2019 | [–]

I would argue that this is better than most alternatives.

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