Question

According to:

http://haxe.org/api/haxe/io/bytes

There is a function Bytes.compare that returns an Int. What does this in mean? I tried to compare 2 Bytes object that were equal and I got 0 back. And for 2 different I got -529068432.

So it seems the function returns 0 for equal Bytes and something else otherwise. But just asking, what is the “offical specification”?

Answer 1

It is similar to the compare argument we give to Array.sort. In this case, it kind of returns

• 0 if x == y
• >0 if x > y
• <0 if x < y

where x is the caller, y is the other Bytes.

Just a tip, you can always check the source code (Bytes.compare’s) if something is unclear.