Is this a bug or lack of understanding?

[Chris Picton]

Stephen Webb wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Chris Picton wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have the following program:
> >...
> >
> > If i run it as it stands, it prints out all the elements in the map
> > in alphabetical order of the keys
> >
> > If I change the commented return line in the sort function object, to
> > sort by length of the key, it doesnt print all the entries in the map.
> >
> > Could someone explain why, or is it a bug?
>
> Not a bug.
>
> Your first version of the program maps strips to ints.  The second maps the length of the strings to ints.  A map<>
> will hold only one instance per value, so I would expect only one entry per length of string in the second version of
> the program.

In both of them, I declare map<string, int, s>

Dowsnt that mean I am mapping strings to ints in both cases.  Shouldnt the sorting function be only to decide in what
order to store the objects.

>
>
> Stephen M. Webb
> Principle Consultant, Bregmasoft

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Chris Picton
Usko Communications Systems Developer
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