Crate collate

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Defines a Collate trait to standardize collation methods across data types. The provided Collator struct can be used to collate a collection of items of type T where T: Ord.

Collate is useful for implementing a B-Tree, or to handle cases where a collator type is more efficient than calling Ord::cmp repeatedly, for example when collating localized strings using rust_icu_ucol. It’s also useful to handle types like complex numbers which do not necessarily have a natural ordering.

Use the “stream” feature flag to enable diff and try_diff functions to compute the difference between two collated Streams, and the merge and try_merge functions to merge two collated Streams.

Structs

  • Collator
    A generic collator for any type T: Ord.

Enums

  • Overlap
    An Overlap is the result of a comparison between two ranges, the equivalent of Ordering for hierarchical data.

Traits