Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> Oh, er... can you have a vector of vectors? Or would it have to be a 
> >> vector of vector pointers?
> > 
> >   It's perfectly possible.

> OK. I just wasn't sure if it's permissible for the element type to be of 
> variable size, that's all.

  As Fredrik pointed out, a type in C++ always has the same size.
"std::vector<int>" is an example of a type, and each instance of it
will have the same size.

  In fact, there's a keyword in C++ (and C) which can be used to get
the size (in bytes) of a type, at compile time: sizeof(YourType)

  The std::vector class itself consists of a pointer and maybe a few
data members. Its contents do not change. What the vector does is that
it allocates memory dynamically. That allocated memory does not affect
the size of the std::vector object.

  Anyways, these are technical details you don't have to worry about.

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                                                          - Warp

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