------- Comment #2 from glyn at adgie dot f9 dot co dot uk 2009-03-09 21:25 ------- Thanks Paolo, I suspected that this was not a bug in libstdc++, but standard-compliant behaviour.
It just seems so unexpected, when compared to other languages that have maps, e.g. tables in Lua. It is also unexpected when compared to other STL containers, e.g. std::vector. A bug in the standard, perhaps? I would have thought that if other languages can implement the expected behaviour for reading from an associative array, so should C++. Perhaps there is something in the implementation of std::map that makes this impossible or inefficient, but I must say, I cannot see why. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39416
