haxe.ds.ArraySort.sort and the using keyword

[Rezmason]

Hey guys,

As of this morning I can attest to the relative ease of migrating a Haxe project to Haxe 3. And by migrate, I mean compile, not benefit from– I'm still working on that.

For instance, I've discovered the ArraySort class, which I think is really useful. However, I'm not sure whether ArraySort.sort<T>(a:Array<T>, cmp:T -> T -> Int) works with the using keyword. After all, Arrays already have a method called sort; is the "using haxe.ds.ArraySort;" statement sufficient for indicating to the compiler that "myArray.sort(sortFunc) should use ArraySort.sort?

[Jason O'Neil]

No, "using" will only take effect if there is not a member method on the object you are calling - so in this case ArraySort.sort() will not override myArray.sort().

You could work around it by having another name

class MyArraySort
{

  static inline public function arraySort(a, cmp) return ArraySort.sort(a, cmp);

}

using MyArraySort;

myArray.arraySort(....);

Not that it's ideal, but yeah.

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