Re: [Boost-users] Re: Defining less on member variables/functions

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-26 13:40:06

Deane Yang wrote:
> Victor A. Wagner Jr. wrote:
>> why do you want to sort ONLY on the 1st element of the pair?
>
> I can't speak for the original poster, but I often have
> a collection of pairs of the form (time, data) and want
> to put the whole thing in chronological order.

The point is that the ordinary sort already does that.