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"John.Cowan" <jcowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Thomas Bushnell scripsit: > >> If string<? is used only for cases where the exact order is >> irrelevant, then there is no advantage in standardizing the order at >> all. > > There is; if you use string<? to create a search tree, and then serialize > it and pass it to some other system, it should still be a search tree. > That can be assured by ensuring that string<? provides a universally > consistent collation. Yes, but is this much important? Cannot the few cases where people want this specific thing simply define an order themselves on the strings they share support for?