Do sorted ranges have any special properties?

[KennyTM~]

On Jul 27, 10 13:20, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Philippe Sigaud wrote:
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>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
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> Yah... that is all cool. My only reservations are that with what we have
> right now this looks like a lot of manual special casing. By the way,
> chain() with ranges sorted with the same predicate is also sorted...
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No

      chain([4,5,6,7], [1,2])  // <-- not sorted

unless you can also assert   input[i-1].back <= input[i].front.

> Then, such an effort would be much better motivated if sorted ranges had
> some really interesting properties. Aside from those discussed - there's
> not a lot of them!
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> Andrei