Re: [boost] strict_weak_ordering

From: Ben Young (ben.young_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-25 10:51:42

On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, David Abrahams wrote:

> Ben Young <ben.young_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
> > Recently at our company we had a couple of bugs relating to people
> > incorrectly writing comparison operators, so I came up with this little
> > helper. It is very trivial, but useful none the less as bogus comparison
> > operators can be the cause of many bugs.
> >
> > Obviously it could be improved to take a predictate of some kind and
> > checged to use the boost pre-processor library, but, otherwise, is anyone
> > interested
>
> Did you ever consider using
>
>     make_tuple(x1, y1, z1) < make_tuple(x2, y2, z2)
>
> ?

Yes, but actually I am of the feeling that perhaps the tuple library
should be using the strict_... form rather than the other way around.

Won't the make_tuple method make a copy of all its arguments?

Ben
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