Re: Sorting a List of Numbers

On Jun 10, 2014, at 12:39 PM, Paul Isambert <zappathustra@free.fr> wrote:

> If you use "sort(numbers, 'MyCompare')" with "MyCompare()" define as
> in the help for "sort()", it works well.
>
> On the other hand, I'd say sorting numbers as strings is definitely a
> bug in this situation.

Thanks Paul. I'd not noticed "MyCompare" in the documentation somehow.

I did notice that the sort() help says that it sorts based on the String representation of the items, so I guess this is at least *mentioned*, but I agree in considering it a bug. At the very least I'd expect an alternate function to be built in.

Ben

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