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Im recently bumping into java's `compareTo` function again, and im reminded of how much i hate it.

Any chance kotlin could do some inline class magic to make this disappear? Make a `Comparable` interface that returns an `value class ComparsionResult(val value: Int)`  with some nice factory methods `fun leftIsFirst: ComparisonResult = ComparisonResult(-1)` ?

I cant help but think this is a jvm pimple that kotlin can really elegantly sugar.

any result &lt; 0 is less and any result &gt; 0 is greater, doesn't have to be specifically -1/0/1, so if you just transparently wrap the results, others can easily write incorrect code
```if (comparison == leftIsFirst)
```
which IMO is an API flaw that is almost as bad as the original