JuliaLang/julia — comment on commit 78fc28cab5bc879dd265ec32e062eded0b78046b
File: j/sort.j line 245
By StefanKarpinski:

So the idea is that for most cases one uses the higher-order but in a few cases inherited from that other language, we have the extra dim argument? That seems a bit annoying and inconsistent. Now you need to remember which ones you can add a dim argument to and which ones you can't.