D dropped in favour of C# for PSP emulator

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 5/11/12 1:10 PM, Mehrdad wrote:
> On Friday, 11 May 2012 at 18:05:58 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
>> and the solution indeed was NOT something I would've found by myself
>> without spending hours on it.
>
>
> Just a note: I believe I *had* seen SortedRange in the docs, but I'd
> never realized there's something called assumeSorted() that I was
> supposed to call... so I was searching up and down for how to search an
> *arbitrary* container, not how to search something which was already
> pre-sorted for me.
> (In retrospect, I probably should've just coded binary search myself...)
> It's very counterintuitive to have to make a new object (or struct) just
> to do binary search on an array...

At the same time it clarifies, documents, and statistically verifies 
that you pass a sorted range. Also, D's binary search works with 
non-array ranges, but C#'s works only with arrays (which it assumes 
sorted only by convention).

I think we copiously made the right call there.


Andrei