From -6913583947902741997 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,d50382f3e5ec6b4e X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d50382f3e5ec6b4e X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,gid109fba,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!proxad.net!proxad.net!194.117.148.138.MISMATCH!pe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk!blueyonder!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!stump.algebra.com!devnull From: nesotto@cs.auc.dk ("Thorsten Ottosen") Newsgroups: comp.std.c++,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: The issue of const maps and operator[] Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 02:54:24 GMT Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Lines: 27 Sender: mail2news@demon.net Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: <41aef8cf$0$66398$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> References: <3171vsF37jfq7U1@individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.news.demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1102042473 1240 158.152.254.254 (3 Dec 2004 02:54:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 02:54:33 +0000 (UTC) X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Priority: 3 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at cs.mu.OZ.AU X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Received: (from fjh@localhost) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.9/Submit) id iB32sOon012813; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 13:54:24 +1100 (EST) X-Path: comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail X-Delivered-To: std-c++@ucar.edu X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-Newsgroups: comp.std.c++,comp.lang.c++ Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.std.c++:3554 comp.lang.c++:32511 "James Dennett" wrote in message news:YWxrd.191852$hj.44035@fed1read07... > In spite of having found several discussions on this topic, I could not > find mention of whether this issue is going to be addressed when C++ > gets its next major revision. |I find it enormously unlikely that this would be changed in the |next revision of C++. yes true. but we are already looking into adding T& map::at( const Key& ); const T& map::at( const Key& ) const; which should throw if nothing is found. Alternatively, I guess we could use operator()(). -Thorsten --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.jamesd.demon.co.uk/csc/faq.html ]