Is the std::set iteration order always ascending according to the C++ specification?

Question

Here http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/stl/set/ I read that std::set in C++ is \"typically\" implemented as a tree (red-black one?) and it is sorted.

I could not un

Answer 1

The default comparator is less, so the set will be ordered ascending. To change this you can specify another existing or custom comparator as a template argument.