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Comment by y0ghur7_xxx | Hacker News Reader

I wanted to implement the sleep sort algorithm, but I can't use

  VA = [4, 2, 5, 7];
  for(x=0; x<VA.length; x++) {
      var y = VA[x];
      setTimeout('console.log(' + y + ')', y*1000);
  }

it tells me I can't use "var". And when I remove that I get some syntax error. Any nice alternative way to implement a sleep sort in coffescript?

This is the coffeescript equivalent, not sure how to get it working in the visualisation though as it doesn't involve swaps.

  VA = [4, 2, 5, 7]
  for y in VA
    setTimeout('console.log(' + y + ')', y*1000)

Try this:

    VA = [4, 2, 5, 7]
    for y in VA
      setTimeout "console.log(#{y})", y*1000