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Forcing the key to be of the same type as the sorted items used during
the search is a valid use case.
There, however, exists some cases where the key and the items are of
heterogeneous types, like searching for a code point in ordered ranges
of code points:
```zig
const CodePoint = u21;
const CodePointRange = [2]CodePoint;
const valid_ranges = &[_]CodePointRange{
// an ordered array of ranges
};
fn orderCodePointAndRange(
context: void,
code_point: CodePoint,
range: CodePointRange
) std.math.Order {
_ = context;
if (code_point < range[0]) {
return .lt;
}
if (code_point > range[1]) {
return .gt;
}
return .eq;
}
fn isValidCodePoint(code_point: CodePoint) bool {
return std.sort.binarySearch(
CodePointRange,
code_point,
valid_ranges,
void,
orderCodePointAndRange
) != null;
}
```
It is so expected that `std.sort.binarySearch` should therefore support
both homogeneous and heterogeneous keys.