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Collection State

The operational ordering state of a collection in the Problem Space. For value-order-sensitive collections, declare Sorted only when guaranteed; otherwise treat the collection as Unsorted. Unspecified order does not provide sorted-order evidence.

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The operational ordering state of a collection in the Problem Space. For value-order-sensitive collections, declare Sorted only when guaranteed; otherwise treat the collection as Unsorted. Unspecified order does not provide sorted-order evidence.

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Array<Integer> houses [nonnegative unsorted] keeps its supported attribute before its ordering state.

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Collection Attribute Sorted Unsorted Signature Annotation Problem Space
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