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Return `true` if the specified `lhs` is less than (ordered before, according to the comparator held by this object) `value().first` of the specified `rhs` after being cast to `NodeType`, and `false` otherwise. The behavior is undefined unless `rhs` can be safely cast to `NodeType`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_mapcomparator.h>`

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template<class LOOKUP_KEY>
bool
operator()(
    LOOKUP_KEY const& lhs,
    xref:BloombergLP/bslalg/RbTreeNode.adoc[bslalg::RbTreeNode] const& rhs) const;
----


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