Re: container idiom revisited
On Apr 14, 12:37 am, keith <johndoe64...@yahoo.com> wrote:
It's a defect in the standard. See, e.g, issue 355 in:
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2004/n1685.html
Also: the bug has been fixed in the draft for C++0X.
I see. How then to erase the last element of a std::multimap<>?
std::multimap<>::iterator i = m.end();
-- i;
m.erase(i);
It isn't too difficult (and is generally useful) to write a
generic pred() function which can be used.
I've tried mmap.erase(mmap.rbegin());, but it does not work.
Rather obviouslym since multimap<>::erase expects a
multimap<>::iterator.
mmap.erase(--mmap.end()), does work however.
On some (most? all?) implementations.
I don't see the construct being wrong for a
std::multimap<>::iterator (or any other associate iterator),
because they are not random but bidirectional. Consequently I
see them being of class type.
And? Class type doesn't guarantee that --mmap.end() will work.
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