Question

No boost, just plain STL please.

I have a class Foo* mapping to a set of pointers of class ID.

and I need to map a pointer to an instance of ID to a FOO class.

say I have this function:

void FindXXX(const ID* pID)
{

 /*find the containing FOO class quickly, but not at expense of an ugly code*/

}

right now I map each ID* to FOO* thus having something like that

map myMap; which I think is kind of ugly and redundant.

Please suggest

Answer 1

right now I map each ID* to FOO* thus
having something like that

map myMap; which I think is kind of
ugly and redundant.

I assume you have something like this:

map<ID*, Foo*> myMap;

Why would that be ugly?