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Document number: N3764

Date: 2013-09-01

On Optional

by Tony Van Eerd

Excerpt:

optional<T>::operator<() is currently defined in terms of std::less(). The reasoning for this was to
enable things like optional<T*> to work correctly in standard containers like std::map<>.

However, it would be better to instead specialize std::less for optional<T>.