I’ve been reading up on STL containers in my book on C++, specifically the section on the STL and its containers. Now I do understand each and every one of them have their own specific properties, and I’m close to memorizing all of them… But what I do not yet grasp is in which scenario … Read more
Every standard container has a begin and end method for returning iterators for that container. However, C++11 has apparently introduced free functions called std::begin and std::end which call the begin and end member functions. So, instead of writing auto i = v.begin(); auto e = v.end(); you’d write auto i = std::begin(v); auto e = … Read more
When I do this: std::vector<int> hello; Everything works great. However, when I make it a vector of references instead: std::vector<int &> hello; I get horrible errors like error C2528: ‘pointer’ : pointer to reference is illegal I want to put a bunch of references to structs into a vector, so that I don’t have to … Read more
