Nevin Liber <nevin_at_[hidden]> writes:

| [Y'know, I really wish replies would by default go the whole ub group...]

I cannot control your email software, but when you sent me the message,
it wasn't addressed to the group and I replied the same way.

| On 10 October 2013 17:35, Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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| I don’t know because I don’t have access to all machines, nor did anybody
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| came forward with that universal knowledge.
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| I am seriously hoping that we would NOT claim ‘willful ignorance’ as basis
| for design.
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| I thought one of the design principles discussed today in another forum was to
| make the language and library less expert-only.

Correct.

| The fact that pointers may not be totally ordered makes any comparison of them
| in the realm of experts only.

Obviiously, I don't subscribe to that view.

As observed by Sean Parent in another discussion, std::less<T*> as a
total order was never meant to be synonymous for operator< on pointers.
There is nothing expert-only about that, since operator< has been been
documented or thought in any C++ material I know as a total order on
pointers.

| If someone writes:
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| struct Foo
| {
| X x;
| Y y;
| Z z;
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| friend bool operator<(Foo const& l, Foo const& r)
| { return std::tie(l.x, l.y, l.z) < std::tie(r.x, r.y, r.z); }

in my book, that someone writing this isn't a novice, but we have
already disagreed on this.

| };
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| If X, Y or Z are pointers, this code is broken!

If X, Y, and Z are pointers, I don't think he or she would have written that.

-- Gaby