Re: Contraints on equal_range comparison function object

From:
David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
8 Nov 2006 04:16:20 -0500
Message-ID:
<87k626ecp1.fsf@pereiro.luannocracy.com>
"Meador Inge" <meadori@gmail.com> writes:

For:
    template<class ForwardIterator, class T, class Compare>
    pair<ForwardIterator, ForwardIterator>
    equal_range(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, const T&
value, Compare comp);
what are the constraints on T?

The Standard only specifies that "Type T is LessThanComparable
(20.1.2)." Is that it?


The resolution to LWG 270 changes that.

The reason I am asking is because I have a case something like:
         struct Compare
         {
        bool operator()(const std::string& lhs, int rhs);
        bool operator()(int lhs, const std::string& rhs);
         };
         ...
         std::vector<int> v;
    std::string k("abc");

    std::equal_range(v.begin(), v.end(), k, Compare());
Now this only works if there is *not* a constraint stating that the
value type of ForwardIterator == T.
Is the above well-defined in terms of the Standard?


Yes, but only since LWG 270 was resolved. See
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/lwg-defects.html#270
and http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2001/n1313.html

Regards,

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