More flexible sorted ranges?

bearophile via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Sun Nov 2 07:13:36 PST 2014


I have often arrays that are sorted, and sometimes I'd like to 
append items to them. So I'd like to write something like:


SortedRange!(Foo[], q{ a.x < b.x }) data;
data ~= Foo(5);
immutable n = data.upperBound(Foo(2)).length;


This means having an array of Foos as sorted range, and appending 
an item to it keeping the sorting invariant (so in non-release 
mode the append verifies the array is empty or the last two items 
satisfy the sorting invariant), and this allows me to call 
functions like upperBound any time I want on 'data' without using 
any unsafe and unclean assumeSorted.

Is this possible and a good idea to do?

Bye,
bearophile


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