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Return `true` if the specified `lhs` is ordered before the specified `rhs` nullable object, and `false` otherwise. `lhs` is ordered before `rhs` if `rhs` is not null and `lhs` is ordered before `rhs.value()`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlb_nullablevalue.h>`

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template<
    class LHS_TYPE,
    class RHS_TYPE>
bool
operator<(
    LHS_TYPE const& lhs,
    xref:BloombergLP/bdlb/NullableValue.adoc[NullableValue<RHS_TYPE>] const& rhs)
requires (!NullableValue_DerivedFromOptional<LHS_TYPE>) &&
    requires { { lhs < *rhs } ‐> NullableValue_ConvertibleToBool; };
----


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