Array sorting

[lue-bird]

Sorting operations like sort, sortBy & sortWith in List can't be found in the module Array.
I miss them the most when working with Arrays, so I think these would be worth adding in a future release to supply a default way of sorting Arrays.

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[andre-dietrich]

Hi, this would be a great feature. It seems to me, that the functionality is already there, since the array seems to be used for sorting lists. It only needs to be exposed also to the array module. I think something like this could also be relevant to create more performant statistics libraries ...

core/src/Elm/Kernel/List.js

Lines 73 to 86 in 84f3889

	var _List_sortBy = F2(function(f, xs)
	{
	return _List_fromArray(_List_toArray(xs).sort(function(a, b) {
	return __Utils_cmp(f(a), f(b));
	}));
	});
	var _List_sortWith = F2(function(f, xs)
	{
	return _List_fromArray(_List_toArray(xs).sort(function(a, b) {
	var ord = A2(f, a, b);
	return ord === __Basics_EQ ? 0 : ord === __Basics_LT ? -1 : 1;
	}));
	});