More optional parens concerns

Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Sat Jun 24 02:40:44 PDT 2017


On Saturday, June 24, 2017 9:56:55 AM MDT Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-
learn wrote:
> I note that:
>
>   x.map!(…).array.sort
>
> is not valid, you have to have the parentheses on sort:
>
>   x.map!(…).array.sort()
>
> Why?

Because the built-in sort for arrays has been deprecated but not yet
removed. So, for now, calling sort on an array without parens calls the
built-in sort. Once the built-in sort has been removed, then this problem
will go away.

- Jonathan M Davis




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