Things that may be removed

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 8:59 AM, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
> Jarrett Billingsley:
>> I suppose you mean for normal arrays.  How about reverse as well?
>
> I'd like to see better and faster "reverse" and "sort", but I think they are useful. Why do you want to see them removed? I think built-in types may enjoy more methods, not less.

So they can be replaced with library methods.  The built-in sort
doesn't even allow you to sort on a predicate.  Even if we extend the
built-in sort to support this, it'll never be as flexible as some
people want it.  If a sort function can perform just as well or better
than the built-in sort while being more flexible, what's the point of
having the built-in sort?