C++17 cannot beat D surely

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Sat, 2017-06-03 at 19:12 +0000, Steven Schveighoffer via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Saturday, 3 June 2017 at 17:32:41 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
> > On 06/03/2017 01:03 PM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > > Björn Fahller has done compile time sort in C++17 here 
> > > http://playfulpr
> > > ogramming.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/constexpr-quicksort-in-c17.html
> > > 
> > > Surely D can do better?
> > 
> > There is nothing to do really. Just use standard library sort.
> > 
> > void main() {
> > 	import std.algorithm, std.stdio;
> > 	enum a = [ 3, 1, 2, 4, 0 ];
> > 	static auto b = sort(a);
> > 	writeln(b);
> > }
> 
> I'd say this deserves a blog post but it would be too short.
> 
> -Steve

a. that was my point in making the original post; and
b. no it isn't, it is the right length.

It would make a great article for Overload.

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