On Thursday, 24 June 2021 at 00:32:31 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
On 6/23/21 7:07 PM, someone wrote:
On Wednesday, 23 June 2021 at 22:46:28 UTC, Steven
Schveighoffer wrote:
Use the `release` method:
```d
return lnumRange.sort!(...).release;
```
Fantastic, issue solved, I previously used sort ascending even
descending but first time on floats.
So I went and searched phobos docs:
auto release();
Releases the controlled range and returns it.
Not much clarification there.
Can you elaborate a bit if possible Steve ?
I think the purpose behind it is to say "here, now you have the
original range back, so I won't guarantee it's sorted any more."
I for one still don't understand.
guarantee? are you saying without the `release()` call, the
sorted-ness is somehow guaranteed?
I'm pretty sure it also clears out the source range in the
sorted range, so you can no longer use the sortedness
functions, but that's easily circumvented using `save`.
This `SortedRange` definitely need better documentation. E.g.
users can easily convert their `sort()` code to D from Java or
Python code after reading the doc.
I can't really defend the purpose/implementation of
`SortedRange`, it's something in Phobos that I've complained
about extensively in the past.
(Sure, I'm not blaming you.)
