On 16 October 2013 10:50, Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>
> Exactly! I said std::less<std::complex<MyFloat>>, which has always been
> supposed to be user-provided, when defined. Since C++98.


Where is the text in the standard or TR/TS (which is the only official
communication between the committee and developers) which states that?

All I can find in n3797 is 17.6.4.2.1p1: "A program may add a template
specialization
for any standard library template to namespace std only if the declaration
depends on a user-defined type
and the specialization meets the standard library requirements for the
original template and is not explicitly
prohibited."

Unless we are willing to say that std::less<T> has no requirements, I don't
see how we give permission for specializing that in a way which does not
match operator<.


> And codes
> like that exist.


That is certainly true. Users are clever whether or not they are on the
committee. :-)


> The relation with your argument is that those C++98
> codes will continue to work today with C++11, while the version with
> less<void> will fail. Miresably.


Like I said, it's a long term plan...

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