Re: Sorting a List of Numbers

Christian wrote:

> > > On Di, 10 Jun 2014, Павлов Николай Александрович wrote:
> > >
> > > > How would you sort a heterogeneous list otherwise?
> > >
> > > Who says, lists are always heterogeneous? I think one could try to sort
> > > numerical, if all list items are of type number or float, else keep the
> > > existing sorting order.
> >
> > It's just that when the sort() function was added the main purpose was
> > to sort text. From that the idea was added to turn anything into text
> > to be able to sort that too.
> >
> > Obviously we would need to add another sort function, or a special
> > argument to the existing sort function, to have it convert everything to
> > a number and sort that. Text and other non-numbers would be used as
> > zero, just slightly better than reporting an error.
> >
> > We already have the special case for the {func} argument to ignore case
> > when it's one. Could use the same flags as the :sort command has.
>
> So how about the attached patch.

Thanks! Glad to see it was not too complicated.

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