Idea for ECMAScript 7: Number.compare(a, b)

[Hemanth H.M]

Something like:

```js
Number.compare = (n1, n2) -> (n1 - n2) / Math.abs(n1 - n2) || 0;
```



On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Mathias Bynens <mathiasb at opera.com> wrote:

> On 6 Jun 2014, at 01:15, Axel Rauschmayer <axel at rauschma.de> wrote:
>
> > It’d be nice to have a built-in way for comparing numbers, e.g. when
> sorting arrays.
> >
> > ```js
> > // Compact ECMAScript 6 solution
> > // Risk: number overflow
> > [1, 5, 3, 12, 2].sort((a,b) => a-b)
> >
> > // Proposed new function:
> > [1, 5, 3, 12, 2].sort(Number.compare)
> > ```
>
> That sorts in ascending order. What if you need to sort in descending
> order? Would there need to be a built-in function for that too?
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