Re: Sorting a List of Numbers

On 2014-06-12 12:51, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> 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.

I don't care for the idea of a number-specific sort() version any
more than I'd care for a "reverse-sort" specific version. If vim's
internals have enough knowledge to discern between a callable and a
non-callable string, the existing sort() function could take flags in
the place where the function currently is, so you could do

sort(my_array, 'n!')

to sort numerically in reverse order much like ":sort! n" which might
even allow reuse of existing sort code internally.

-tim



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