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From: Victor A. Wagner, Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-02 11:26:46


At Thursday 2002/08/01 13:59, you wrote:
>[irrelevant stuff deleted]
>Philippe A. Bouchard
>
>
>P.S.:
>Another thing on flaws in the STL definitions regarding container
>prerequists. It seems they forget the main definition of a container:
>container : something that holds things, especially for transport or
>storage.

container is a common word, at least in the English language. It doesn't
need to be "defined".

>I don't see here nothing that says anything about the fact that copies of
>the elements should be identical. They should implement some pointer traits
>and add quicksort() in <algorithm>.

Ummm, sort() is in <algorithm>..... rtfm (psst: it uses the quicksort
algorithm)

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