I had no idea either. I would have used “std::*_ordering”

On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 5:34 AM Tymi via Std-Proposals <
std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Yeah it's just a placeholder and I used it and saw it in use a lot before,
> specifically meow...
> Anyway yeah if means strong_ordering/weak_ordering/partial_ordering.
>
> Tymi.
>
> On Tue, 20 May 2025, 14:32 Charles R Hogg, <charles.r.hogg_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 7:18 AM Gabriel Ravier via Std-Proposals <
>> std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>>> On 5/18/25 1:41 PM, Tymi via Std-Proposals wrote:
>>> > `switch (left <=> right)` would be a nice thing to have not only for
>>> > stylistic reasons, but could also be an easy way for the compiler to
>>> > form a jump table, and be less bug prone than a chain of if/else
>>> >
>>> > It would require a small core language change, mainly explicitly
>>> > allowing std::meow_ordering in switch expressions, I said small
>>> > because meow_ordering has an exposition only non static data member
>>> > integral value for the comparison. Not sure about the wording though,
>>> > that might be the difficult part
>>> >
>>> > Tymi.
>>> >
>>> Did I miss something (and seemingly the entire internet, since Google
>>> returns no results for "meow_ordering") or is "meow_ordering" not a
>>> thing/referring to something else ?
>>>
>>
>> I found this really confusing as well, and spent longer than I would care
>> to admit trying to google it. Eventually, I realized that "meow" is a cute
>> way of saying "foo" or "bar", and used the context clues around the `<=>`
>> operator to realize that they were likely referring to
>> std::strong_ordering
>> <https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/compare/strong_ordering>,
>> std::weak_ordering
>> <https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/compare/weak_ordering>, and
>> std::partial_ordering
>> <https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/compare/partial_ordering>.
>>
>> Once I figured it out, I decided not to reply. But maybe that was a
>> mistake. If you found this confusing, and I found it confusing, then I'm
>> sure many other people on the list did too.
>>
>>
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