On Thursday, 5 November 2015 at 16:45:10 UTC, Meta wrote:
The second issue is that using .sort instead of .sort() (note the parentheses) calls the built-in sort instead of std.algorithm.sort, which is strongly discouraged. You should always use std.algorithm.sort over the built-in sort, which you can do just by appending those parentheses.
Whoa whoa whoa... This is the first time I've heard about this difference, and I've used .sort plenty of times... That seems like really, REALLY bad design, especially considering the language allows functions to be called without parentheses. I thought I was using std.algorithm's version the whole time.
What's the difference between the implementations of arrays' .sort property and std.algorithm.sort()? And does sort() throw out that "unable to deduce function argument" error for a character array of all things?
