tracker issue : CF-4207690

Consider this code (taken from Ben Nadel's blog).  Technically the docs require the callback to return -1, 0 or 1 but it's widely practiced to return any positive or negative number.  This code returns a number that cannot be cast to an integer type and it errors.  It would be nice for this to work.

{code}
<cfscript>
	// In our API responses, we return Date/Time stamps as UTC Milliseconds so that the
	// client-side code can simply do "new Date( utcMilliseconds )" and create a Date
	// object in the user's local timezone.
	projects = [
		{
			id: 1,
			name: "Really old project",
			createdAt: createDate( 2015, 12, 15 ).getTime() // 1450155600000
		},
		{
			id: 500,
			name: "Recent project",
			createdAt: createDate( 2019, 10, 30 ).getTime() // 1572408000000
		},
		{
			id: 1000,
			name: "Current project",
			createdAt: createDate( 2020, 02, 26 ).getTime() // 1582693200000
		}
	];
	projects.sort(
		( a, b ) => {
			// Sort the projects by CREATED DATE DESC (with most recent dates at the
			// top of the resultant array).
			// --
			// Ex: a: 2020, b: 2015
			// Result: ( (b)2015 - (a)2020 ) => -5 => (a) is sorted first.
			return( b.createdAt - a.createdAt );
		}
	);
	dump( projects );
</cfscript>
{code}

https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3795-array-sort-operator-must-return-int-sized-result-in-lucee-cfml-5-3-4-80.htm

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