Why is std.algorithm so complicated to use?

[Timon Gehr]

On 07/10/2012 06:40 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2012-07-10 16:54, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
>> Actually I take that back. One may use uniq to remove duplicates in
>> unsorted ranges.
>
> How does that work? It didn't work in my example.
>

It works. It removes consecutive duplicates. 'uniq' in ruby is
different, which is strange as the name was taken from the command-line
facility. (that also removes consecutive duplicates)