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- /*
- File: SortableCollection.java
-
- Originally written by Doug Lea and released into the public domain.
- Thanks for the assistance and support of Sun Microsystems Labs, Agorics
- Inc, Loral, and everyone contributing, testing, and using this code.
-
- History:
- Date Who What
- 24Sep95 dl@cs.oswego.edu Create from collections.java working file
-
- */
-
- package collections;
-
- import java.util.Enumeration;
- import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
-
- /**
- *
- *
- * Sortable is a mixin interface for UpdatableCollections
- * supporting a sort method that accepts
- * a user-supplied Comparator with a compare method that
- * accepts any two Objects and returns -1/0/+1 depending on whether
- * the first is less than, equal to, or greater than the second.
- * <P>
- * After sorting, but in the absence of other mutative operations,
- * Sortable Collections guarantee that enumerations
- * appear in sorted order; that is if a and b are two elements
- * obtained in succession from nextElement(), that
- * <PRE>
- * comparator().compare(a, b) <= 0.
- * </PRE>
- * @author Doug Lea
- * @version 0.93
- *
- * <P> For an introduction to this package see <A HREF="index.html"> Overview </A>.
- **/
-
- public interface SortableCollection extends UpdatableCollection {
-
- /**
- * Sort the current elements with respect to cmp.compare.
- **/
-
- public void sort(Comparator cmp);
- };
-