Re: Returning more than one value from a function
On 2007-07-02 08:15, Emery wrote:
On Jul 1, 8:55 pm, Mohitz <coolmoh...@gmail.com> wrote:
is pair<> fine for returning two values?
What about more than two values?
PS: Values may be of different types.
Opinions?
Thank you
Mohit
You know you can return a struct? I think the uses of std::pair even
in the STL should have been structs. std::map for example uses a pair
for items where .first and .second hold the key and value
respectively. You have to know this ahead of time, where as if an item
struct with .key and .value members was used you would not need to
refer to the documentation. The only "appropriate" use for a generic
pair container IMO would be within another container that takes two
arbitrary types that are only known to be coupled together. But that's
just my personal opinion.
A pair is just a parameterised struct, the only difference between what
you proposed and using pair is that pair is more generic than specific
structs. Besides, once you've used them you have no problem remembering
that it's first and second and not key and value.
--
Erik Wikstr?m
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