"Jarrett Billingsley" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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I'd like to see better and faster "reverse" and "sort", but I
think they are useful. Why do you want to see them removed? I
think built-in types may enjoy more methods, not less.
So they can be replaced with library methods.
How does having built-in sort prevent anybody from implementing sort in a
library?
The built-in sort doesn't even allow you to sort on a predicate.
Even if we extend the built-in sort to support this, it'll never be
as flexible as some people want it. If a sort function can perform
just as well or better than the built-in sort while being more
flexible, what's the point of having the built-in sort?
I'm sure Walter can come up with a rationale for having sort built in.
But I still doubt there's any reason for keeping it as limited as it is.
Stewart.
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