Re: Array.Sort?

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From: Tim Jarvis (TimJarvis_at_newsgroup.nospam)
Date: 01/08/05 

Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 00:23:13 -0800

Marina wrote:

> Can't really think of a good reason. Would have made sense to me to
> make it an instance method. Unless there is something I'm missing as
> well.

I would imagine that concurrency is the issue. It wouldn't be safe to
sort via an instance method in a thread.

Cheers Tim.

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