On 22/08/2011 13:37, Lars Viklund wrote:
Hi list.
I was asked today why the std::map container didn't have templated versions of functions like find, lower_bound, and so on. I could not give a good answer on why there could not exist such a thing, assuming that the comparator had sufficient symmetric overloads for the real Key type and the FauxKey that the query would be performed with.
Boost.Intrusive provides this feature, I believe.
Would something like this be possible to add to Boost.Containers, considering that going through the typical standard routes would have a latency of a couple years at best? I'm told that the Boost.Intrusive containers already supports this.
That would make Boost.Containers not standard-conforming, unless the function was given a different name.