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Matthew Heaney wrote:

> Something tells me you don't really understand the STL.  There is *one*
> algorithm for sorting, and it works for any kind of container.

No it doesn't. It requires random-access iterators, so you can't sort
a list.

Also, there's no such thing in Standard C++ as std::slist.