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

[Hemanth H.M]

My bad! Miss read it. ^That still sorts in ascending order only.


On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Hemanth H.M <hemanth.hm at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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