Why can't static arrays be sorted?

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On Wednesday, 5 October 2016 at 19:30:01 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
>> Would just like to point out that this is design weirdness on 
>> Phobos' part - the library I've been writing does not have 
>> this problem.
>
> It doesn't even make conceptual sense for a static array to be 
> a range, because you can't remove elements from it.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Just because the static array itself isn't a range doesn't mean 
that it should be necessary to do unintuitive gymnastics with it 
just to pass it to functions like `sort`.