std.algorithm sort() and reverse() confusion

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On 2015-01-30 at 17:07, Paul wrote:
> writeln("Sorted, reversed: ", reverse(myVals));
>
> Gives me...
>
> Error: template std.stdio.writeln cannot deduce function from argument types !()(string, void)

As it should, because reverse returns nothing, void.
But you may wonder what the design choice behind that was that reverse doesn't return the range itself while sort does (a SortedRange, specifically).