Commit ff3123d1 authored by Agniva De Sarker's avatar Agniva De Sarker Committed by Ian Lance Taylor

sort: update main example to use Slice along with Sort

This is to let sort.Slice get more prominence since
it's the most common use case.

Fixes #21989

Change-Id: I0b180cc20256f5f09065b722e191c508c872f4f7
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/65710Reviewed-by: 's avatarRob Pike <r@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: 's avatarIan Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
parent 48ec5122
......@@ -35,10 +35,24 @@ func Example() {
}
fmt.Println(people)
// There are two ways to sort a slice. First, one can define
// a set of methods for the slice type, as with ByAge, and
// call sort.Sort. In this first example we use that technique.
sort.Sort(ByAge(people))
fmt.Println(people)
// The other way is to use sort.Slice with a custom Less
// function, which can be provided as a closure. In this
// case no methods are needed. (And if they exist, they
// are ignored.) Here we re-sort in reverse order: compare
// the closure with ByAge.Less.
sort.Slice(people, func(i, j int) bool {
return people[i].Age > people[j].Age
})
fmt.Println(people)
// Output:
// [Bob: 31 John: 42 Michael: 17 Jenny: 26]
// [Michael: 17 Jenny: 26 Bob: 31 John: 42]
// [John: 42 Bob: 31 Jenny: 26 Michael: 17]
}
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