> On Jun 7, 2016, at 12:07 PM, Tim Vermeulen via swift-evolution > <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > >> True, but the cost of being able to restore the original ordering, when >> that restoration may not be needed at all, is prohibitive. > > What about simply restoring the elements, in no particular order? This seems > like an easy enough task, and I don’t think it requires the sorting algorithm > to allocate any extra memory (in case no error is thrown, at least).
What is the example that motivates this? Is there a widely used comparison function that throws? -Chris _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list swift-evolution@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution