Using custom std::set comparator

Question

I am trying to change the default order of the items in a set of integers to be lexicographic instead of numeric, and I can\'t get the following to compile with g++:

Answer 1

Yacoby's answer inspires me to write an adaptor for encapsulating the functor boilerplate.

template< class T, bool (*comp)( T const &, T const & ) >
class set_funcomp {
    struct ftor {
        bool operator()( T const &l, T const &r )
            { return comp( l, r ); }
    };
public:
    typedef std::set< T, ftor > t;
};

// usage

bool my_comparison( foo const &l, foo const &r );
set_funcomp< foo, my_comparison >::t boo; // just the way you want it!

Wow, I think that was worth the trouble!