Lack of pointer Typedef in STL container

[ManicQin]

Looking at vector's header I can see that they provided me with a:
typedef A::reference reference;

But there's no typedef for a pointer to A...

Don't get me wrong I can easily write vector<someting>::value_type*
but it makes me wonder why supplying a typedef for reference
and not for pointer? Any special reasons you know of?

[Victor Bazarov]

ManicQin wrote:

Looking at vector's header I can see that they provided me with a:
typedef A::reference reference;

But there's no typedef for a pointer to A...

Don't get me wrong I can easily write vector<someting>::value_type*
but it makes me wonder why supplying a typedef for reference
and not for pointer? Any special reasons you know of?

The type 'reference' is returned by 'back' or 'front'. Probably due
to the presence of 'vector<bool>' specialisation, which does *not*
have 'reference' as the synonym to 'bool&' prompted the creation of
the 'reference' type. 'pointer' is simply not needed anywhere.

Correct me, somebody.

V
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[Barry]

On Apr 10, 10:20*pm, ManicQin <[e-mail]:

Looking at vector's header I can see that they provided me with a:
typedef A::reference reference;

But there's no typedef for a pointer to A...

Don't get me wrong I can easily write vector<someting>::value_type*
but it makes me wonder why supplying a typedef for reference
and not for pointer? Any special reasons you know of?

C++03 has "pointer" typedef.

What's implementation you checked out?

Here I check out sgi, it has "pointer"
VC2005, it has

[ManicQin]

On Apr 10, 5:48*pm, Barry <[e-mail]:

On Apr 10, 10:20*pm, ManicQin <[e-mail]:

Looking at vector's header I can see that they provided me with a:
typedef A::reference reference;

But there's no typedef for a pointer to A...

Don't get me wrong I can easily write vector<someting>::value_type*
but it makes me wonder why supplying a typedef for reference
and not for pointer? Any special reasons you know of?

C++03 has "pointer" typedef.

What's implementation you checked out?

Here I check out sgi, it has "pointer"
VC2005, it has

You're right, The first time I checked in VS6 but after your post I
checked my VS Express and found it.
Thanks.