Bultins .reverse and .sort are likely going to be removed soon.

[Ivan Kazmenko via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 22:56:15 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
> I just finished the PR to remove the builtin array properties 
> .sort and .reverse.

That's nice!  Finally, we could get rid of the awkward reverse() 
or sort!() in UFCS chains while all the rest don't need the 
parentheses.

> while the dmd changes were trivial fixing all the broken tests 
> were not.
> Even tests that were supposed to call std.algorithm.sort turned 
> out to use the property by accident; (because of a small error 
> which caused the sort template not to instantiate).

So, the process exposed latent bugs in the tests, which is 
another indication that the change is a Good Thing.  I wonder how 
the deprecation message didn't make it happen sooner though.

Ivan Kazmenko.