Re: cannot sort an array of char

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On Wednesday, 5 November 2014 at 13:34:05 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:

On Wednesday, 5 November 2014 at 12:54:03 UTC, Ivan Kazmenko wrote:

Hi!

This gives an error (cannot deduce template function from argument types):

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import std.algorithm;
void main () {
        char [] c;
        sort (c);
}
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Why is "char []" so special that it can't be sorted?

For example, if I know the array contains only ASCII characters, sorting it sounds no different to sorting an "int []".

Hmm... this doesn't work either:

    import std.algorithm;
    import std.utf;
    void main () {
        char [] c;
        sort (c.byCodeUnit);
    }

But IMO it should.

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13689