opCmp, [partial/total/pre]orders, custom floating point types etc.

[Fool via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 12 January 2016 at 21:06:40 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Tuesday, 12 January 2016 at 19:50:57 UTC, Fool wrote:
>> By the way, that implies that the result of sorting an array 
>> of float by default comparison is undefined unless the array 
>> does not contain NaN.
>
> Didn't think of that. Yikes. Should we change the default 
> predicate of std.algorithm.sort to std.math.cmp when 
> ElementType!R is floating point?

That depends on whether marketing decides to emphasize safety 
over performance.

I'm glad that I'm not in charge! ;-)