Throughout this book you’ve already defined various sort functions, but they always sorted elements in ascending order and always according to the evaluation of the () templates that you worked with...

Throughout this book you’ve already defined various sort functions, but they always sorted elements in

ascending order and always according to the evaluation of the <>() templates that you worked with throughout this chapter. Take the solution to Exercise 10-6 and generalize its sort() template accordingly. Use this to sort a sequence of integers in descending order (that is, from large to small); to sort a sequence of characters alphabetically, ignoring the case ('a' must rank before 'B', even though 'B' <>