On Wednesday, 9 March 2016 at 14:28:11 UTC, cym13 wrote:
Note that an input range isn't even remotely a container, it's a way to iterate on a container. As you don't have all elements at hand you can't sort them, that's why you have to use array here.
Oh, I think it just clicked. I was thinking 'sort takes a range, so it must be used for sorting ranges', but I should have thought 'sort takes a range so it can sort a container via a range over that container'.
