Re: using a float as the index in an STL map?

From:
James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
22 Apr 2007 02:02:36 -0700
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On Apr 21, 2:56 pm, kostas <skola...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Apr 21, 1:02 pm, James Kanze <james.ka...@gmail.com> wrote:

I can't think off hand of a case where that would be
appropriate, but there probably exists one. A more likely
solution would be to round the keys before insertion. In a lot
of cases (most, I suspect, if one knows what one is doing),
there isn't a problem.


Round to what you forgot to say. I think that whatever rounding scheme
you choose, there is the possibility that slight different values will
round to different keys.


Certainly. That's why you have rules for rounding.

Say you have chosen to round to units and
your input is 1.4 and 1.6(not to say 1.499... , 1.50...1). I suspect
that the first will round to 1. and the second to 2. You can say that
my proposal was a round to already existing values.


It's not rounding in the classical sense, although as you say,
in some ways, it works like it. The reason I say that I can't
think of a case off hand for it is precisely that the choice of
the central value is more or less random. I'm also not too sure
if it will work; there's certainly no way to write a Compare
operator which reflects it.

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