On Saturday, 15 November 2014 at 08:52:45 UTC, Meta wrote:
> On Saturday, 15 November 2014 at 03:47:25 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> err... this isn't what you want. That will sort the range, and then make a copy of the sorted range as an array.
>
> Yes, I didn't see the the second constraint to not sort the original range.
>
> Sort before .array -> original will be sorted.
>
> Sort after  .array -> original will not be sorted.

BTW: When I uncomment line

    /* assert(x.sorted == y); */

in string unittest it errors as

sort_ex.d(160,5): Error: can only sort a mutable array
sort_ex.d(178,13): Error: template instance sort_ex.sorted!string error instantiating

What's wrong with my isArray-overload of sorted?

On Saturday, 15 November 2014 at 14:34:07 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
> What's wrong with my isArray-overload of sorted?

I solved it by replacing

    R s = r.dup;

with

    auto s = r.dup;

As a follow up I know wonder if it is ok for isArray-overload of sorted() to have return type ubyte[] if input is a string?

I wonder because x.array.sort has type

    dchar[]

when x is a string.