Re: [Boost-users] [ptr_container] Abstract Key type in ptr_map<Key, Val> impossible?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [ptr_container] Abstract Key type in ptr_map<Key, Val> impossible?
From: Mikhail Levin (svarneticist_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-06-28 10:45:09

Steven Watanabe <watanabesj <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> I believe that ptr_map stores the key be value.
> 
> In Christ,
> Steven Watanabe
> 

I see.  Thank you.

It would be good to document this prominently, because it is natural to expect
that ptr_map<Key,Val> stores Key*, since "a set can be seen as a map, where
values are irrelevant" and ptr_set<Key> stores Key*.