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 < 0 is less and any result > 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