[Haskell-cafe] Sorting Integers

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

sebastian.sylvan:
> On 2/13/06, Sebastian Sylvan <sebastian.sylvan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 2/13/06, JimpsEd <jamie.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I have 3 integers, a b c that I want to pass to a function, and I want the
> > > function to return the 3 integers sorted, from largest to smallest - any
> > > idea how to do this?
> > >
> >
> > Well, the obvious way
> >
> > import Data.List
> >
> > foo a b c = (a',b',c')
> >    where [a',b',c'] = sort [a,b,c]
> >
> >
> > This sounds like some type of "exercise" task though, so I think they
> > may be looking for something using guards and several comparisons.
> >
> 
> Oops, you'd need to reverse the sorted list if you want largest to smallest.
> 
> foo a b c = (a',b',c')
>   where [a',b',c'] = reverse (sort [a,b,c])
> 

Oh, I made the same mistake. Jinx!

-- Don  :)