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Strange thing happened with if((a < b) == true)
By h1a4c3k, history, 6 weeks ago, In English

Today I read a blog that says: "In C++, comparator should return false if its arguments are equal." I don't really understand it (as I am a newbie to CP), can anyone explain for me about it? Btw, I makeup this piece of code: (g++14)

    #include <bits/stdc++.h>
    using namespace std;
     
    int main() {
    	int a = 1, b = 1;
    	if((a < b) == true) cout << 1;
    	else cout << 0;
    	return 0;
    }

I expected it to print out "0", but it print nothing instead. Can anyone explain those? Any help is appreciated, thanks to all of you!

PS: Sorry about my bad english

 
 
 
 
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When I run it in custom invocation, I get 0. The issue might be that you aren't flushing.

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    I flushed it and it worked! Thanks for your answer :)

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To extend the answer I am mostly sure that you have seen such statement in sorting-kinda blog. Then, indeed, when we use sort() with out custom comparator it should return false when arguments are equal.

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