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Simple Associative Container


Category: containers	Component type: concept

Description

A Simple Associative Container is an Associative Container where elements are their own keys. A key in a Simple Associative Container is not associated with any additional value.

Refinement of

Associative Container

Associated types

None, except for those described in the Associative Container requirements. Simple Associative Container, however, introduces two new type restrictions.

Key type	`X::key_type`	The type of the key associated with `X::value_type`. The types `key_type` and `value_type` must be the same type.
Iterator	`X::iterator`	The type of iterator used to iterate through a Simple Associative Container's elements. The types `X::iterator` and `X::const_iterator` must be the same type. That is, a Simple Associative Container does not provide mutable iterators. [1]

Notation

`X`	A type that is a model of Simple Associative Container
`a`	Object of type `X`
`k`	Object of type `X::key_type`
`p`, `q`	Object of type `X::iterator`

Definitions

Valid expressions

None, except for those defined in the Associative Container requirements.

Expression semantics

Complexity guarantees

Invariants

Immutability of Elements

Every element of a Simple Associative Container is immutable. Objects may be inserted and erased, but not modified. [1]

Models

Notes

[1] This is a consequence of the Immutability of Keys invariant of Associative Container. Keys may never be modified; values in a Simple Associative Container are themselves keys, so it immediately follows that values in a Simple Associative Container may not be modified.