Re: CMAP under vs2005+

From:
David Wilkinson <no-reply@effisols.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:09:29 -0400
Message-ID:
<#0czn8FOJHA.1144@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>
Giovanni Dicanio wrote:

"Giovanni Dicanio" <giovanniDOTdicanio@REMOVEMEgmail.com> ha scritto nel
messaggio news:%23d2CDbFOJHA.584@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

I would like to have a const Lookup(), but the version I posted here was
based on Tommy's version, and in his Lookup implementation he modified the
iterator data member.
So, the Lookup can't be const in that case, beacuse a data member (the
iterator) is modified.

I prefer a const Lookup, and no iterator data members.


This was OP's code:

  BOOL Lookup(const TKEYSTR &k, VALUE& v)
   {
      it = this->find(k);
      if (it != this->end()) {
           v = it->second;
           ++it;
           return TRUE;
      }
      return FALSE;
   }

and this was the code I posted, trying to get functional equivalence to OP's
code (i.e. modifying iterator data member):

    bool Lookup(const KeyType & key, ValueType & value)
    {
        m_it = m_map.find(key);
        if (m_it != m_map.end())
        {
            value = m_it->second;
            ++m_it;
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

Without being required to have functional equivalence to OP's code, I would
avoid the ++m_it, and I would just use a non-data-member iterator as a
result of map.find().


Giovanni:

Ah yes, I see now. In Tommy's original version, derived from CMap, Lookup() was
const, as it is in CMap. But in his later version, derived from std::map, it was
not const, as you note.

I certainly think that Lookup() should be const, because CMapEx is supposed to
be a CMap replacement, even if it cannot be used polymorphically.

--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP

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