On 16 October 2013 10:06, Gabriel s too subtle for even most committee
members, let alone mere mortals, to get right.Dos Reis <gdr_at_[hidden]>wrote:

>
> | I would not have trouble telling people (especially notices):
> "Ignore expect
> | talks
> | about operator< on pointers. Prefer std::less<T>, unless you
> meant a
> | relationship
> | between objects pointed to, in which use operator<. Mean what you
> say
> | and say
> | what you mean."
> |
> |
> |
> | So what about std::less<void>? Should people be using it?
>
> What is wrong about it?
>

It requires operator<. If people specialize std::less<T> instead adding an
operator<, it won't work. It would be surprising that:

set<T, less<T>> works, but
set<T, less<>> does not.

One of the two motivations for this in
n3421<http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2012/n3421.htm>is
to not require that the argument type in a comparator functor be
explicitly specified, but that assumes there is an operator< for the type,
or possible compiler magic for pointer comparisons because of the ub issue.

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 Nevin ":-)" Liber  <mailto:nevin_at_[hidden]>  (847) 691-1404