On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 04:11:50PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote:
> > How large is '(possibly large)'?
> 
> Angus looks at the source... (perhaps André could too ;-)... 

Oh well... I looked, you know...

> Ok, not large. A counter contains an int. 

Not exactly '(possibly large)', no? ;-)

> > And yes, I prefer things over pointers to things if that's not too
> > expensive...
> > >   counterList[newc] = new Counter;
> >     counterList[newc] = Counter();
> > No?
> 
> This probably qualifies for a call of smart-arse ;-)

Because the assigment is superflous since the result is identical to

        counterList[newc];

? [The item in the map gets created when operator[] is used...]

Andre'


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