http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5076
--- Comment #12 from bearophile_h...@eml.cc 2011-10-28 17:33:16 PDT ---
An use case for sorted(). I have to create a function foo() with a int[]
argument. Unless foo() is performance-critical the usual API requirements ask
for its arguments to be constant (in), to make the program less bug-prone.
Inside foo() I need to sort the a copy of items, and then I don't need to
modify this array, so I'd like this array copy too to be const. This is an
implementation that currently works:
import std.algorithm, std.exception;
void foo(in int[] unsortedData) {
int[] tmpData_ = unsortedData.dup;
tmpData_.sort();
const(int[]) data = assumeUnique(tmpData_);
// Use array 'data' here.
}
void main() {}
assumeUnique is not safe, and the tmpData_ name is present in the scope still
(despite assumeUnique has turned its length to zero, this improves the
situation a little).
With a pure sorted(), the code becomes more clean and safe:
import std.algorithm;
void foo(in int[] unsortedData) pure {
const(int[]) data = sorted(unsortedData);
// Use array 'data' here.
}
void main() {}
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