
Hello Thorsten,
thanks for the ptr_vector clarifications. I have another question
about ptr_map:
I can declare a map iterator in the following way:
ptr_map

Oleg Smolsky
However, "first" and "second" don't seem to exist in ptr_map. Could you shed some light on how I can iterate your map please?
Please see http://www.boost.org/libs/ptr_container/ doc/reference.html#map-iterator-operations HTH Thorsteb

Hello Thorsten, Thorsten Ottosen wrote on 29/10/2005 at 5:20 a.m.:
However, "first" and "second" don't seem to exist in ptr_map. Could you shed some light on how I can iterate your map please? Please see http://www.boost.org/libs/ptr_container/doc/reference.html#map-iterator-oper... Right, I see. Well, xxx.key() makes sense, but IMHO overloading operator*() to return the "value" is quite confusing. To me, it would make more sense to provide explicit accessors such as: iterator.key iterator.value
Or something similar. Whether these are function calls or not, IMHO, doesn't matter, but the readability would be a lot higher. Best regards, Oleg.

Right, I see. Well, xxx.key() makes sense, but IMHO overloading operator*() to return the "value" is quite confusing. To me, it would make more sense to provide explicit accessors such as: iterator.key iterator.value
Or something similar. Whether these are function calls or not, IMHO, doesn't matter, but the readability would be a lot higher.
I'll think about adding i.value() too. The reason that it is good to have operator*() return something is that we don't need another layer around algorithms to accomdate for the different syntax...so I can clone the values and put them in a ptr_vector quite easily: ptr_map map = ...; ptr_vector<T> vec( map.begin(), map.end() ); -Thorsten
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