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Willi Vogl
10/23/2007 2:25:11 PM

Hi,

does anybody have an idea why the List<T>.Sort method is not virtual?
Would be fine to allow subclassing with customer sort implementation to
get e.g. stability for the sort operations.

Br,

Mattias Sjögren
10/23/2007 9:21:19 PM

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The List class isn't designed to be derived from. Instead the
designers prioritized performance and made methods non-virtual.

Mattias

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Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]
11/1/2007 10:37:22 AM

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Also, the IList interface doesn't include the Sort method, neither does List
implement any ISortableContainer interface. That seems like a serious
omission.

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