https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24048
--- Comment #4 from Grim Maple <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Grim Maple from comment #3) > (In reply to Nick Treleaven from comment #1) > > filter returns an input range. > > sort requires a random access range and works in place and has good time > > complexity. > > How do you want to sort an input range? > > As a user, I shouldn't care about what `filter` returns. I should care about > getting a filtered & sorted array/range. > > As for `sort`, in my user opinion, if it can't do its job "in place", then > it could as much do it out-of-place, because this code > > ``` > auto a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]; > a.sort!((x, y) => x > y).writeln; > ``` > > fails to compile just as much, and it's staright up inconvenient I meant to change `auto a` to `immutable a`. Then it won't compile, but should --
