Re: Using std:.pair right
desktop wrote:
I have made this little test with std::pair:
test<int> t1(1);
test<int> t2(2);
std::pair<test<int>,test<int> > mypair = std::make_pair(t1,t2);
where test is a template class I wrote. It seems a bit cumbersome to
make a pair are there any better way to do it than the above procedure?
It depends on what you're trying to accomplish. For your simple example,
the solution is to not use pair, but write a template class that holds
two test<T> objects. More generally, just as with iterators, creating
named objects of pair types often reflects a design mistake. make_pair
avoids having to write the types involved, which makes it easy to pass
its return value to a template function:
template <class T>
void f(T t);
f(make_pair(t1, t2));
Once you start naming objects you've lost the benefit of make_pair,
because you still have to name the type of the pair. While the new auto
syntax mentioned in another message can be used to evade this problem,
before doing that you need to ask why you're creating an auto object in
the first place.
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