Re: [boost] [optional] operator<(optional<T>, T) -- is it wrong?

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 1:58 AM, Matt Calabrese wrote:

Why? What makes the string default ordering "reasonable" and complex or variant not? There are a lot of ways to order strings that might even be more sensible in more cases than the current default (I.E. having different

I think this kind of reasoning isn't very fruitful. Optional is not a string, string is not an optional. One having operator< does not imply the other should have it to.