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Given a multimap, this is what I would have *liked* to do:

    multimap<int,double> m;
    m.insert(3, 5.0);

But of course, such a function does not exist. Is there a reason why
STL opted not to provide this convenient interface and chose to go
with the more tedious (for the user) approach of insert taking
a pair<const T1,T2>? Besides being convenient, it is also possible
that providing the key and the value separately rather than creating
an intermediate pair is actually more efficient.

FYI, ObjectSpace's STL<ToolKit> provides, as an extension, an insert
member function with this signature. But I would much prefer to write
code which can be ported to different STL implementations.

So I wonder why the DWP itself doesn't make calling insert easier and the
code possibly more efficient? Could someone help me understand?

I would have settled for
    m.insert(make_pair(3, 5.0));

But that doesn't work either because there is no conversion from
pair<T1,T2> to pair<const T1,T2>.


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