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Wonky wording: operators that "admit" other operators? #2357

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Eelis opened this issue Oct 13, 2018 · 2 comments · Fixed by #2533
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Wonky wording: operators that "admit" other operators? #2357

Eelis opened this issue Oct 13, 2018 · 2 comments · Fixed by #2533
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Eelis commented Oct 13, 2018

E.g. in [cmp.weakord]/1:

The weak_­ordering type is typically used as the result type of a three-way comparison operator that (a) admits all of the six two-way comparison operators ([expr.rel], [expr.eq]), and (b) does not imply substitutability.

What does it mean for an operator to "admit" another operator? I can't find a definition of it anywhere. Is there maybe a better way to phrase what is intended here? :)
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jensmaurer commented Oct 25, 2018 •
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Maybe "... that does not imply substitutability and whose parameter type admits all..."?

@jensmaurer jensmaurer added the decision-required A decision of the editorial group (or the Project Editor) is required. label Oct 25, 2018
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Editorial meeting: Replace "admits" with "supports". No, makes it worse.
"... for a type that is intended to support ... and for which equality need not imply substitutability."
Also for the other such phrases.

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[cmp.categories] Replace 'operator admits' phrasing. jensmaurer/draft
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