How to sort []int32

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How to sort slice of 32bit integers, I know about “sort” packege’s Ints method but unfortunately it accepts only slice of ints

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By wrapping in a very simple type and then implementing sort.Interface for that.

https://play.golang.org/p/o1Jb-hIQXLI

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Simpler solution with sort.Slice: https://play.golang.org/p/9s_noUV5sDA

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Nice, I have to remember that one! Would have saved me a lot of lines in a couple of projects…

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It’s actually fairly new! Since 1.8 https://golang.org/doc/go1.8#sort_slice

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This works fine but a more idiomatic (https://gobyexample.com/sorting-by-functions) way to do it is like this:

https://play.golang.org/p/VUi6dXWB13M

When you coerce your slice into the type byValue and the call to the sort function looks really nice:

sort.Sort(byValue(f))
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