On Friday, 11 May 2012 at 18:18:21 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
At the same time it clarifies, documents, and statistically
verifies that you pass a sorted range. Also, D's binary search
works with non-array ranges, but C#'s works only with arrays
(which it assumes sorted only by convention).
I think we copiously made the right call there.
Andrei
Right, right, I understand all of that...
But just because the *reasons* are correct that doesn't mean it's
more intuitive.
("Intuitive", by definition, means that you have a good chance of
getting it right without needing to look it up. Binary searching
in D failed this miserably for me.)
