On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 20:17:57 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Ivan Kazmenko:
(1) For me, the name of the function is obscure. Something
like sortBy would be a lot easier to find than schwartzSort.
I've asked to change the name of that function for years. But
Andrei Alexandrescu is a adamantly against changing that pet
name he has chosen. This is irrational behavour:
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4909
There's lot of way to go for Phobos. And the only want to find
holes, missed opportunities, sub-optimal performance spots,
missing functions and features, and bad APIs and bad names is
to actually try to use Phobos, like we are doing in this thread.
On the bright side, the list under "Sorting" at the docs
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_algorithm.html
is short enough for the curious to just look at the entries and
find it.
The specific page
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_algorithm_sorting.html
does even contain a link explaining what that is, but I'd propose
-"Sorts with the help of the Schwartzian transform."
+"Sorts by key predicate with the help of the Schwartzian
transform."
or some similar wording.
