On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 07:35, Christopher Hegarty -Sun Microsystems Ireland > > >> >> 2) With the addition of @throws IllegalArgumentException, this >> condition cannot be met with the old merge sort right, i.e. running >> with -Djava.util.Arrays.useLegacyMergeSort=true. So we're saying >> that all bets are off when running with this property set? >> >> >> No. Please re-read the @throws IllegalArgumentException. >> It is carefully worded to make no promises at all. All bets are off - >> period. >> > OK great. But just to clarify, what exactly does "if the natural order of > the array elements is found to violate the Comparable contract" mean? >
"natural order" is defined in the Comparable javadoc. http://download.java.net/jdk7/docs/api/java/lang/Comparable.html We could use @linkplain to the Comparable spec, as elsewhere in java.util. Martin
