Hi

why in STL vector donot have thier sort function while List have ?
we have to use function provided by algorthim ..........sort( )
defined outside vector class

Thanks

Pallav singh wrote:
> Hi
>
> why in STL vector donot have thier sort function while List have ?
> we have to use function provided by algorthim ..........sort( )
> defined outside vector class
>
>
The C++ <algorithm> library sort template requires random access
iterators. Vector iterators satisfy this.

List does not have random access, only sequential (bidirectional
at least). It needs a special sort algorithm as a result.