On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Jonas Sicking <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Jeremy Orlow <[email protected]> > wrote: > > When I think of this, I think of it returning the first item for a > > particular value. I can't think of any use cases where it'd matter > either > > way though. Can you? > > Define "first" :) > > I also can't think of use cases where it matters which is returned, > but I still think it's confusing that it'd change depending on which > order things are iterated. > > Consider a page with displays a table of results and which has the > ability to sort results by a particular column by clicking the header > in that column. It would seem strange if the contents of that table > change if you switched a column between ascending and descending > sorting. > I can't think of a case where an app would be doing something like this though. Anyway, after thinking about it, I think what you guys are advocating is slightly better. I guess lets stick with that. J
