I believe programmers are still free to define specific operators in lieu of the compiler-derived ones for such cases. I found a blog post which raised similar

I believe programmers are still free to define specific operators in lieu of the compiler-derived ones for such cases. I found a blog post which raised similar concerns [0], and P1185 [1] proposes some solutions. I don't know whether they made it into the standard, though. [0]: https://foonathan.net/2018/10/spaceship-proposals/ https://foonathan.net/2018/10/spaceship-proposals/ [1]: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p1185r1.html http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p118...