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/*
File: KeySortedCollection.java
Originally written by Doug Lea and released into the public domain.
Thanks for the assistance and support of Sun Microsystems Labs, Agorics
Inc, Loral, and everyone contributing, testing, and using this code.
History:
Date Who What
24Sep95 dl@cs.oswego.edu Create from collections.java working file
*/
package collections;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
/**
*
*
* KeySorted is a mixin interface for Collections that
* are always in sorted order with respect to a Comparator
* held by the Collection.
* <P>
* KeySorted Collections guarantee that enumerations
* appear in sorted order; that is if a and b are two Keys
* obtained in succession from keys().nextElement(), that
* <PRE>
* elementComparator().compare(a, b) <= 0.
* </PRE>
* @author Doug Lea
* @version 0.93
*
* <P> For an introduction to this package see <A HREF="index.html"> Overview </A>.
**/
public interface KeySortedCollection extends Collection {
/**
* Report the Comparator used for ordering
**/
public Comparator keyComparator();
}