On 26.10.19 03:11, Zach Laine via Boost-users wrote:If convenience is so paramount, why don't we add member sort () to vector? This is not a troll, I would really like to know. I want to find something in a vector or sort a vector about as often as I want to find a character or subsequence within a string. What, to you, is the difference? If there isn't one, please explain that too.
I am not an expert (at all) on Unicode but I'd certainly like to add my 2 bits in response to your argument as to why sort() is not a vector member. IIRC, Bjarne Stroustrup (and, I guess, most C++ language designers/standard committee members?) has a clear preference of restricting the member functions of a class to only those functions that are absolutely required to maintain the class invariant. I think I read it in TC++PL's 3rd edition.
-Asif Lodhi