Re: interesting task for .NET learners: why ArrayList.Sort hangs? [.NET 1.1]

"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <skeet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> (Bill: the algorithm has been tweaked. I don't believe it was tweaked
> specifically to get around this flaw, but it's the kind of flaw which
> is quite data-sensitive; depending on the data given, 2.0 either
> notices the problem or happens to get the result right.)

I don't mean that the algorithm was tweaked to fix this problem, but rather a slight optimization
accidentally fixed a broken IComparer. Similar to the standard C++ idiom to prevent self assignment.
I can explain what I mean more fully, but I am still being semi-cryptic.

Bill


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