Re: [boost] Interest in a statically initialized map?

Meador Inge wrote:

A typical idiom in C is to initialize map data structure statically.

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Static_map::find would just be a simple linear search. However, there could be another type, say sorted_static_map, that relies on the keys in the initialization list to be sorted by the user. Then a binary search could be used for sorted_static_map::find.

Does anyone else have a need for such a beast?

How about boost.assign: http://www.boost.org/libs/assign/doc/index.html using namespace std; using namespace boost::assign; // bring 'map_list_of()' into scope map<int,int> mii = map_list_of(1,2)(2,3)(3,4)(4,5)(5,6); Same idea should work with strings. Jeff