Re: [Boost-users] shared_ptr to object in stl set container?

Rob Desbois wrote:

On 13 December 2011 10:06, Nathan Ridge mailto:zeratul976@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Your operators are likely not being called because they are of the > incorrect signature. > > ... >

Actually, the reason the operator< is not being invoked is because the way it's defined, it compares a Node object to a NodePtr:

Doh! I thought I had a feeling there was something more there :-(

IMHO, a better approach may be to supply std::set's sort predicate rather than overloading global operator<(). There may be places where you want to compare NodePtr's with normal pointer comparison semantics. Jeff