On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:08:05 +0100, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>>   OTOH this actually causes more trouble than it's worth, as it makes
>> std::vector behave in certain cases rather differently when the element
>> type is bool compared to any other element type. This is a common  
>> complaint.
>
> ...because C++ "bool" is actually some mannar of integer?

No, because std::vector<bool> is specialised in such a way that:
  1 - It is not a container (not as the C++ standard defines them)
  2 - It does not actually contain values of type 'bool'

It is one of those things that seemed like a good idea at the time, but  
did not turn out so good in practice.


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FE

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