Sounds like precisely what is needed.  I'm all for it!

On Friday, June 16, 2017 at 2:16:59 PM UTC-6, Wiebe-Marten Wijnja wrote:
>
> Going back to the core of this issue, I'd like for there to be a simple 
> function `compare` with an accompanied Protocol, which ensures that the 
> comparison return values are standardized. This would significantly improve 
> compatibility of libraries. I think this is a standardization that we 
> should embrace quickly, before the APIs of the publicly available libraries 
> dift further apart and become near-impossible to reunite in a 
> backwards-compatible fashion. 
>
> I'd like to hear who is in favour and who is against of this very concrete 
> proposal.
>
>
> On Friday, June 9, 2017 at 2:37:39 PM UTC+2, Michał Muskała wrote:
>>
>> On 9 Jun 2017, 14:28 +0200, Wiebe-Marten Wijnja <[email protected]>, 
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> We could change `Enum.sort` to use `&Kernel.lte?/2` by default, rather 
>> than `&<=/2`. Although this might have slight efficiency implications for 
>> existing applications, I think it would uphold the Principle of Least 
>> Surprise better.
>>  
>>
>>
>> This would have huge performance implications. Enum.sort/1 and 
>> Enum.sort/2 have completely different implementations. Enum.sort/2 is about 
>> 2.5 times slower (when provided with &<=/2 as comparator).
>>
>> Michał.
>>
>

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