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Re: map
- To: Alexandre Oliva <oliva at dcc dot unicamp dot br>
- Subject: Re: map
- From: Jochen Kuepper <jochen at uni-duesseldorf dot de>
- Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2134 15:02:26 +0200
- Cc: egcs mailing list <egcs at cygnus dot com>
- References: <orvhmbfqxa.fsf@araguaia.dcc.unicamp.br>
- Reply-To: jochen at uni-duesseldorf dot de
On Thu, 01 Jan 1970 Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>Jochen Kuepper <jochen@uni-duesseldorf.de> writes:
>
>> I am missing the following function from the class map ( as of egcs-1.1 )
>
>> const T& operator[](const key_type& k) const;
>
>> In the class header file (stl_map.h) there is only
>
>> T& operator[](const key_type& k);
>
>As the standard mandates. The problem is that operator[] will insert
>a value for the given key_type if none exists. I'm of the opinion
>that a const member function should have been defined, that would
>throw an exception if the key were not present in the map already, but
>the members of the standard committee thought otherwise :-(
So is this considered a bug of listdc++ as of egcs-1.1 ?
Is it fixed in the current version ?
As I see it is save to use the non-const function on const objects in the
current implementation - is that right ?
Btw: Will there be something like egcs-1.1.[12] ?
Greetings,
Jochen
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