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- /*
- File: KeySortedCollection.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;
-
- /**
- *
- *
- * KeySorted is a mixin interface for Collections that
- * are always in sorted order with respect to a Comparator
- * held by the Collection.
- * <P>
- * KeySorted Collections guarantee that enumerations
- * appear in sorted order; that is if a and b are two Keys
- * obtained in succession from keys().nextElement(), that
- * <PRE>
- * elementComparator().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 KeySortedCollection extends Collection {
-
- /**
- * Report the Comparator used for ordering
- **/
-
- public Comparator keyComparator();
-
- }
-
-