I've wanted such a function a few times because passing in the alternated function is not always clear. Instead of `&>=/2` I'd rather do things like `¬(&1<&2)` as it makes it unambiguous while reading, and a prepending a `reverse_` to the sorts is even better still. I'm +1 on this.
On Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 2:39:42 PM UTC-6, José Valim wrote: > > I would like to propose a new small function to Enum, called > Enum.reverse_sort, that returns sort in the reverse (descending order). > > While reversing sorting today is easy to achieve with: > > Enum.sort(collection, &>=/2) > > I always have a second guess on what the second argument really is. I > believe reverse_sort is much clearer in intent: > > Enum.reverse_sort(collection) > > This is clearer with sort_by too. instead of: > > Enum.sort_by(users, & &1.name, &>=/2) > > I can write: > > Enum.reverse_sort_by(users, & &1.name) > > The implementation itself is straight-forward. > > What I would like to know is: > > 1. Is this a good addition? > 2. Is the name reasonable? Any other takers? > > *José Valim* > www.plataformatec.com.br > Skype: jv.ptec > Founder and Director of R&D > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/6384264f-9b2f-4c5d-be5e-54f56d4f79b5%40googlegroups.com.
