Re: [boost] fake "operator<"

Guillaume Melquiond wrote:

Back to the topic of operator< for smart_ptr, I think it was a mistake for the STL to use std::less as the default parameter for ordered containers. It would have been better to define some kind of total_order template class (that would have defaulted to being std::less).

I agree that the inclusion of a separate "set/map order" relation in the standard library (that is defined for all standard value types) would have made the correct choice obvious.