pub trait PartialOrd<Rhs: PointeeSized = Self>: PartialEq<Rhs> + PointeeSized {
// Required method
fn partial_cmp(&self, other: &Rhs) -> Option<Ordering>;
// Provided methods
fn lt(&self, other: &Rhs) -> bool { ... }
fn le(&self, other: &Rhs) -> bool { ... }
fn gt(&self, other: &Rhs) -> bool { ... }
fn ge(&self, other: &Rhs) -> bool { ... }
}
Expand description
Trait for types that form a partial order.
The lt
, le
, gt
, and ge
methods of this trait can be called using the <
, <=
, >
, and >=
operators, respectively.
This trait should only contain the comparison logic for a type if one plans on only implementing PartialOrd
but not Ord
. Otherwise the comparison logic should be in Ord
and this trait implemented with Some(self.cmp(other))
.
The methods of this trait must be consistent with each other and with those of PartialEq
. The following conditions must hold:
a == b
if and only if partial_cmp(a, b) == Some(Equal)
.a < b
if and only if partial_cmp(a, b) == Some(Less)
a > b
if and only if partial_cmp(a, b) == Some(Greater)
a <= b
if and only if a < b || a == b
a >= b
if and only if a > b || a == b
a != b
if and only if !(a == b)
.Conditions 2â5 above are ensured by the default implementation. Condition 6 is already ensured by PartialEq
.
If Ord
is also implemented for Self
and Rhs
, it must also be consistent with partial_cmp
(see the documentation of that trait for the exact requirements). Itâs easy to accidentally make them disagree by deriving some of the traits and manually implementing others.
The comparison relations must satisfy the following conditions (for all a
, b
, c
of type A
, B
, C
):
A: PartialOrd<B>
and B: PartialOrd<C>
and A: PartialOrd<C>
, then a < b
and b < c
implies a < c
. The same must hold for both ==
and >
. This must also work for longer chains, such as when A: PartialOrd<B>
, B: PartialOrd<C>
, C: PartialOrd<D>
, and A: PartialOrd<D>
all exist.A: PartialOrd<B>
and B: PartialOrd<A>
, then a < b
if and only if b > a
.Note that the B: PartialOrd<A>
(dual) and A: PartialOrd<C>
(transitive) impls are not forced to exist, but these requirements apply whenever they do exist.
Violating these requirements is a logic error. The behavior resulting from a logic error is not specified, but users of the trait must ensure that such logic errors do not result in undefined behavior. This means that unsafe
code must not rely on the correctness of these methods.
Upholding the requirements stated above can become tricky when one crate implements PartialOrd
for a type of another crate (i.e., to allow comparing one of its own types with a type from the standard library). The recommendation is to never implement this trait for a foreign type. In other words, such a crate should do impl PartialOrd<ForeignType> for LocalType
, but it should not do impl PartialOrd<LocalType> for ForeignType
.
This avoids the problem of transitive chains that criss-cross crate boundaries: for all local types T
, you may assume that no other crate will add impl
s that allow comparing T < U
. In other words, if other crates add impl
s that allow building longer transitive chains U1 < ... < T < V1 < ...
, then all the types that appear to the right of T
must be types that the crate defining T
already knows about. This rules out transitive chains where downstream crates can add new impl
s that âstitch togetherâ comparisons of foreign types in ways that violate transitivity.
Not having such foreign impl
s also avoids forward compatibility issues where one crate adding more PartialOrd
implementations can cause build failures in downstream crates.
The following corollaries follow from the above requirements:
<
and >
: !(a < a)
, !(a > a)
>
: if a > b
and b > c
then a > c
partial_cmp
: partial_cmp(a, b) == partial_cmp(b, a).map(Ordering::reverse)
The <
and >
operators behave according to a strict partial order. However, <=
and >=
do not behave according to a non-strict partial order. That is because mathematically, a non-strict partial order would require reflexivity, i.e. a <= a
would need to be true for every a
. This isnât always the case for types that implement PartialOrd
, for example:
let a = f64::sqrt(-1.0);
assert_eq!(a <= a, false);
§Derivable
This trait can be used with #[derive]
.
When derive
d on structs, it will produce a lexicographic ordering based on the top-to-bottom declaration order of the structâs members.
When derive
d on enums, variants are primarily ordered by their discriminants. Secondarily, they are ordered by their fields. By default, the discriminant is smallest for variants at the top, and largest for variants at the bottom. Hereâs an example:
#[derive(PartialEq, PartialOrd)]
enum E {
Top,
Bottom,
}
assert!(E::Top < E::Bottom);
However, manually setting the discriminants can override this default behavior:
#[derive(PartialEq, PartialOrd)]
enum E {
Top = 2,
Bottom = 1,
}
assert!(E::Bottom < E::Top);
§How can I implement PartialOrd
?
PartialOrd
only requires implementation of the partial_cmp
method, with the others generated from default implementations.
However it remains possible to implement the others separately for types which do not have a total order. For example, for floating point numbers, NaN < 0 == false
and NaN >= 0 == false
(cf. IEEE 754-2008 section 5.11).
PartialOrd
requires your type to be PartialEq
.
If your type is Ord
, you can implement partial_cmp
by using cmp
:
use std::cmp::Ordering;
struct Person {
id: u32,
name: String,
height: u32,
}
impl PartialOrd for Person {
fn partial_cmp(&self, other: &Self) -> Option<Ordering> {
Some(self.cmp(other))
}
}
impl Ord for Person {
fn cmp(&self, other: &Self) -> Ordering {
self.height.cmp(&other.height)
}
}
impl PartialEq for Person {
fn eq(&self, other: &Self) -> bool {
self.height == other.height
}
}
impl Eq for Person {}
You may also find it useful to use partial_cmp
on your typeâs fields. Here is an example of Person
types who have a floating-point height
field that is the only field to be used for sorting:
use std::cmp::Ordering;
struct Person {
id: u32,
name: String,
height: f64,
}
impl PartialOrd for Person {
fn partial_cmp(&self, other: &Self) -> Option<Ordering> {
self.height.partial_cmp(&other.height)
}
}
impl PartialEq for Person {
fn eq(&self, other: &Self) -> bool {
self.height == other.height
}
}
§Examples of incorrect PartialOrd
implementations
use std::cmp::Ordering;
#[derive(PartialEq, Debug)]
struct Character {
health: u32,
experience: u32,
}
impl PartialOrd for Character {
fn partial_cmp(&self, other: &Self) -> Option<Ordering> {
Some(self.health.cmp(&other.health))
}
}
let a = Character {
health: 10,
experience: 5,
};
let b = Character {
health: 10,
experience: 77,
};
assert_eq!(a.partial_cmp(&b).unwrap(), Ordering::Equal); assert_ne!(a, b);
§Examples
let x: u32 = 0;
let y: u32 = 1;
assert_eq!(x < y, true);
assert_eq!(x.lt(&y), true);
1.0.0 · Source
This method returns an ordering between self
and other
values if one exists.
use std::cmp::Ordering;
let result = 1.0.partial_cmp(&2.0);
assert_eq!(result, Some(Ordering::Less));
let result = 1.0.partial_cmp(&1.0);
assert_eq!(result, Some(Ordering::Equal));
let result = 2.0.partial_cmp(&1.0);
assert_eq!(result, Some(Ordering::Greater));
When comparison is impossible:
let result = f64::NAN.partial_cmp(&1.0);
assert_eq!(result, None);
1.0.0 · Source
Tests less than (for self
and other
) and is used by the <
operator.
assert_eq!(1.0 < 1.0, false);
assert_eq!(1.0 < 2.0, true);
assert_eq!(2.0 < 1.0, false);
1.0.0 · Source
Tests less than or equal to (for self
and other
) and is used by the <=
operator.
assert_eq!(1.0 <= 1.0, true);
assert_eq!(1.0 <= 2.0, true);
assert_eq!(2.0 <= 1.0, false);
1.0.0 · Source
Tests greater than (for self
and other
) and is used by the >
operator.
assert_eq!(1.0 > 1.0, false);
assert_eq!(1.0 > 2.0, false);
assert_eq!(2.0 > 1.0, true);
1.0.0 · Source
Tests greater than or equal to (for self
and other
) and is used by the >=
operator.
assert_eq!(1.0 >= 1.0, true);
assert_eq!(1.0 >= 2.0, false);
assert_eq!(2.0 >= 1.0, true);
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