Dave Smith wrote:
>Does anyone know of a good C++ replacement fot the STL container classes?
>I am specifically tired of dealing with std::map because of the awful
>looking code it requires. This is some seriously ugly stuff:
>
><painful-code>
>map<Class1,map<Class2,Class3> >::iterator iter = myMap.find( someInstance );
>if( iter != myMap.end() ) {
> map<Class2,Class3>::iterator subIter =
> (*iter).second.find( someOtherInstance );
> if( subIter != (*iter).second.end() ) {
> ...
> }
>}
></painful-code>
>
>
>
Most people using STL in a major way, also use typedefs so that the code
isn't so ugly.
typedef map<Class1,map<Class2,Class3>> myMap;
typedef myMap::iterator mapItr;
If you do that, you can swap out the container relatively easily too.
-Dennis
><mild-rant>
>Why didn't the STL creators think to include an exists() method or a []
>operator that didn't actually create an entry on use?! Sometimes even Java
>looks good compared to the STL.
></mild-rant>
>
>I'm trying to create some hierarchical structures that look more or less
>like this in C++:
>
>Class1
> |
> +---> Class2
> | |
> | +---> Class3
> |
> +---> Class2
> | |
> | +---> Class3
> + ...
>
>If I were using some scripting language like Perl or PHP, this would be a
>no-brainer, but since it's C++, I'm stuck with a brainer. Can anyone help
>bail me out of this syntactical misery? Please no language flames, and
>please only C++ answers.
>
>
I think the typedef answer gets you a ways down the road :D
>Thanks in advance!
>
>--Dave
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