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Specify ascending/descending property for comparison based sorts

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#5,881 opened on Aug 14, 2020

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Comparison based sorting algorithms can have two results: the object is either sorted in ascending or descending order. From what I see, most of the algorithms submitted here assume ascending order, but this can be easily resolved if an additional boolean parameter is passed to the sort function to specify the ascending/descending property. This would also entail changing the test files which depend upon the sort function accepting only the object as a parameter.

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