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| <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Intrusive</strong></span> ordered associative containers |
| with equivalent keys offer stability guarantees, following <a href="http://open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/lwg-defects.html#233" target="_top">C++ |
| standard library's defect #233 resolution</a>, explained in document <a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1780.html" target="_top">Comments |
| on LWG issue 233: Insertion hints in associative containers</a>. This means |
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| A <span class="emphasis"><em>Insert without hint</em></span> member function always insert |
| at the upper bound of an equal range. |
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| A <span class="emphasis"><em>Insert with hint</em></span> member function inserts the new |
| value <span class="bold"><strong>before the hint</strong></span> if hint's and new |
| node's keys are equivalent. |
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| Implements Andrew Koenig <span class="emphasis"><em>as close as possible to hint</em></span> |
| proposal. A new element is always be inserted as close to the hint as possible. |
| So, for example, if there is a subsequence of equivalent values, <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">a</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">begin</span><span class="special">()</span></code> as the hint means that the new element |
| should be inserted before the subsequence even if <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">a</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">begin</span><span class="special">()</span></code> is far away. This allows code to always |
| append (or prepend) an equal range with something as simple as: <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">m</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">insert</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">m</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">end</span><span class="special">(),</span> <span class="identifier">new_node</span><span class="special">);</span></code> |
| or <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">m</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">insert</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">m</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">begin</span><span class="special">(),</span> <span class="identifier">new_node</span><span class="special">);</span></code> |
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