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C++ Primer, Fifth Edition
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C++ Primer, Fifth Edition

by Stanley B. Lippman, Josée Lajoie, Barbara E. Moo
August 2012
Intermediate to advanced
976 pages
30h 17m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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14.3.2. Relational Operators

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Classes for which the equality operator is defined also often (but not always) have relational operators. In particular, because the associative containers and some of the algorithms use the less-than operator, it can be useful to define an operator<.

Ordinarily the relational operators should

1. Define an ordering relation that is consistent with the requirements for use as a key to an associative container (§ 11.2.2, p. 424); and

2. Define a relation that is consistent with == if the class has both operators. In particular, if two objects are !=, then one object should be < the other.

Although we might think our ...

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