builtin sort

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-06-10 11:03, Stephan Schiffels wrote:

> I agree. Do people have the same opinion on the builtin reverse? I don't
> remember whether there was a discussion about this. I suggest to kill
> that as well. sort and reverse are perfectly well implemented in the
> standard library rather than builtin.

"reverse" is implemented with the stupid name "retro".

> Is anyone actually on this? I could try to dig into it, I guess I could
> start looking for spurious places in phobos and druntime where these
> builtin functions are used and replace them with the library ones. If we
> deprecate it in the end we don't want to see it being used anywhere in
> the standard implementations.

Perhaps start with modifying the compiler to indicate the "sort" and 
"reverse" functions are deprecated. Then it will be easier to find in 
Phobos and druntime. Also, if used in druntime they need to be 
reimplemented there.

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/Jacob Carlborg