Lua table sorting with custom comparator function not producing expected order
After trying multiple solutions online, I still can't figure this out... I'm trying to implement I'm following best practices but I'm working through a tutorial and I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here, but I'm relatively new to this, so bear with me..... I'm trying to sort a table of objects in Lua using a custom comparator function, but the result isn't what I expected. I have a table of user data, and I want to sort it based on the 'age' property. Here's the code I've implemented: ```lua local users = { {name = "Alice", age = 30}, {name = "Bob", age = 25}, {name = "Charlie", age = 35} } local function compare(a, b) return a.age < b.age end table.sort(users, compare) ``` After executing this, I print the sorted table: ```lua for _, user in ipairs(users) do print(user.name, user.age) end ``` Instead of getting the users sorted by age in ascending order, I find that the output order is incorrect. The printed result is: ``` Alice 30 Bob 25 Charlie 35 ``` I expected to see Bob first, then Alice, and finally Charlie. I've double-checked that the `age` properties are indeed numbers and not strings. I also tried removing the comparator function just to see if `table.sort` works correctly on its own, and it does return the order of elements based on their memory addresses, which isn't what I need. Could there be an scenario with how I'm implementing the comparator? Do I need to return `false` or `nil` for the default case? I've tried various combinations, but I'm not getting the desired results. I'm using Lua 5.1, and I've checked the table contents before sorting to ensure they are as expected. Any insights or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! This is part of a larger API I'm building. Thanks in advance! I'm working on a CLI tool that needs to handle this. How would you solve this? Is there a better approach? This issue appeared after updating to Lua 3.10. Hoping someone can shed some light on this. I've been using Lua for about a year now. Has anyone else encountered this? For context: I'm using Lua on Debian. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. Has anyone dealt with something similar? I'm coming from a different tech stack and learning Lua. Thanks, I really appreciate it!