beginner question: What is the advantage of using cmp::Ordering::Less over “<”, same for Greater and Equals?

  • luminasapphira@beehaw.org
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    10 months ago

    I’m guessing you’re asking because you got a clippy lint. Using Ordering allows you to match the output therefore only calling partial_ord once, compared to using an if-else chain which might call it several times. In many/most cases this would probably be compiler optimized anyway but this makes it explicit.