On Sunday, 9 March 2014 at 16:02:55 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Vladimir Panteleev:
Seriously, Bearophile suggested "ABCD".sort(), and it took
about 6 pages (!) for someone to point out this would be
wrong.
Sorting a string has quite limited use in the general case,
It seems I am sorting arrays of mutable ASCII chars often
enough :-)
What do you use this for?
I can think of sort being useful e.g. to see which characters
appear in a string (and with which frequency), but as the concept
does not apply to all languages, one would need to draw a line
somewhere for which languages they want to support. I think this
should be done explicitly in user code.
