How to sort a range
rcorre via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Wed Mar 9 07:52:04 PST 2016
On Wednesday, 9 March 2016 at 14:28:11 UTC, cym13 wrote:
>
> Note that an input range isn't even remotely a container, it's
> a way to iterate on a container. As you don't have all elements
> at hand you can't sort them, that's why you have to use array
> here.
Oh, I think it just clicked. I was thinking 'sort takes a range,
so it must be used for sorting ranges', but I should have thought
'sort takes a range so it can sort a container via a range over
that container'.
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