Why can't static arrays be sorted?

[Adrian Matoga via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 6 October 2016 at 09:17:08 UTC, pineapple wrote:
> 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`.

`sort` takes a range. [] gets a range from anything.
It's a convention, not gymnastics.