Re: Non-strictly Weak Sorting using STL?
On 2009-01-10 08:15:41 -0500, Donovan Parks <donovan.parks@gmail.com> said:
Given that I need to sort the list as specified above, is there any
STL (doesn't seem so) or Boost (not as family with this library set,
although I use parts of it) sorting algorithm that relaxes this
requirement or will I need to grab myself a sorting algorithm and
modify it for my needs. Clearly one can properly sort a list without
this requirement (i.e., where equality is treated as a special case).
I'm a big fan of not reinventing the wheel, but perhaps it is
necessary in this case.
The first task is to describe, in words, what your ordering relation
should do. It's clear from the original code that if the double values
of two objects a and b are not equal, the one with the lesser value
comes first. It's not clear what should happen when the two doubles are
equal. What is the other field that you want to compare on, and under
what circumstances should one value come before another?
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