Matt Austern wrote:
But operator[] isn't read access. It's defined to be equivalent to a
certain form of insert().
Not just insert() but find() too. So it's both read and write access. I think
there's enough ambiguity to warrant the simple change I suggested if it's really
feasible.
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Pau
On Nov 19, 2004, at 12:21 PM, Paul Dubuc wrote:
There's a subtle thread safety problem with hash_map that was found in
our testing recently. It's understood that operator[] is a non-const
method since it can insert an element into a container if one is not
found with the given index.
In our ca
There's a subtle thread safety problem with hash_map that was found in our
testing recently. It's understood that operator[] is a non-const method since
it can insert an element into a container if one is not found with the given index.
In our case we were using operator[] to access a hash_map
