December 11, 2013 Re: std.file.dirEntries unsorted | ||||
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On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 18:11:07 Timothee Cour wrote:
> dirEntries depends on readdir, which has undefined order (eg: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8977441/does-readdir-guarantee-an-order, and I've experienced as well dirEntries in non-alphabetical order)
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> shouldn't we make dirEntries return in alphabetical order by default, with an option to return in unspecified native order for efficiency?
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> at least, it should be specified in doc that order is undefined.
I don't know why you would ever have expected the order to be defined - certainly trying to return them in alphabetical order would be quite inefficient - but if you think that the docs should say so, then you can always open a pull request.
- Jonathan M Davis
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