find() question

[ben]

I want to overload the std::find so i don't have to write array.begin(),
array.end() everytime. so the following is my solution:

template <template <typename EleT> class ContainerT, typename ElementT>
typename ContainerT<ElementT>::iterator // return type
find(
const ContainerT<ElementT>& container,
const ElementT& element)
{
return std::find(container.begin(), container.end(),
element);
}

But I got const type conversion error from the overloaded find above. But
once I took away the const before the container parameter, i.e.

template <template <typename EleT> class ContainerT, typename ElementT>
typename ContainerT<ElementT>::iterator // return type
find(
ContainerT<ElementT>& container, // container no longer
cost
const ElementT& element)
{
return std::find(container.begin(), container.end(),
element);
}

I have no compiler errors. But the find shouldn't modify the container so it
ought to be a const reference.

What's wrong??

ben

[ben]

Ahh, never mind. I figured that out. std::find returns an iterator with
which one can change the content of the container...

ben

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I want to overload the std::find so i don't have to write array.begin(),
array.end() everytime. so the following is my solution:

template <template <typename EleT> class ContainerT, typename ElementT> typename ContainerT<ElementT>::iterator // return type
find(
const ContainerT<ElementT>& container,
const ElementT& element)
{
return std::find(container.begin(), container.end(),
element);
}

But I got const type conversion error from the overloaded find above. But
once I took away the const before the container parameter, i.e.

template <template <typename EleT> class ContainerT, typename ElementT> typename ContainerT<ElementT>::iterator // return type
find(
ContainerT<ElementT>& container, // container no longer
cost
const ElementT& element)
{
return std::find(container.begin(), container.end(),
element);
}

I have no compiler errors. But the find shouldn't modify the container so it ought to be a const reference.

What's wrong??

ben