Github user cloud-fan commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/369#discussion_r13422474 --- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/RDD.scala --- @@ -423,6 +423,18 @@ abstract class RDD[T: ClassTag]( def ++(other: RDD[T]): RDD[T] = this.union(other) /** + * Return this RDD sorted by the given key function. + */ + def sortBy[K]( + f: (T) â K, + ascending: Boolean = true, + numPartitions: Int = this.partitions.size) + (implicit ord: Ordering[K], ctag: ClassTag[K]): RDD[T] = --- End diff -- @markhamstra I checked RDD.scala and found the style you talked about. But one thing I don't understand is:`def countByValue()(implicit ord: Ordering[T] = null)`. I can't find the use of implicit `Ordering[T]` anywhere inside the method, and I compiled spark successfully with this implicit Ordering[T] removed. Did I miss something here?
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