Re: [boost] [Variant] [BGL] Variant<edge_descriptor, edge_descriptor> is not EqualityComparable

Stefan Strasser wrote:

as discussed in the other thread, I think SGI is either mistaken or outdated here. a lot of SGI STL was written before C++ was standardized and some stuff was kept for compatibility. in this draft of the standard from 2005(!) there is no such requirement: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1905.pdf

see page 421

And in N2723 from 2008-08-25 the wording is identical. There's no requirement for != Patrick