On Thursday, 5 November 2015 at 20:45:45 UTC, TheGag96 wrote:
Whoa whoa whoa... This is the first time I've heard about this difference, and I've used .sort plenty of times... That seems like really, REALLY bad design, especially considering the language allows functions to be called without parentheses. I thought I was using std.algorithm's version the whole time.
It's a legacy issue that will hopefully be fixed someday. The issue is that ever since D1, arrays have had a .sort property that uses a built-in sorting function. The compiler will only recognize it as the std.algorithm version of sort if you use parentheses.
What's the difference between the implementations of arrays' .sort property and std.algorithm.sort()? And does sort() throw out that "unable to deduce function argument" error for a character array of all things?
The built-in sort is buggy and slow and should never be used. As far as I know it does not produce errors of its own, so any error messages you see like that are coming from the std.algorithm sort.
