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This `struct` defines an ordering on objects of different types, enabling them for use for heterogeneous comparison in the standard associative containers such as `bsl::map` and `bsl::set`. Note that this class is an empty POD type.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlb_transparentless.h>`

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struct TransparentLess;
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== Type Aliases

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| Name| Description
| xref:BloombergLP/bdlb/TransparentLess/is_transparent.adoc[`is_transparent`] 
| Type alias indicating this is a transparent comparator.
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== Member Functions

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| Name| Description
| xref:BloombergLP/bdlb/TransparentLess/operator_call.adoc[`operator()`] 
| Return `true` if the specified `lhs` is less than the specified `rhs` and `false` otherwise.
|===



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