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Document number: N3586

Date: 2013-03-17

Splicing Maps and Sets

by Alan Talbot, Howard Hinnant

Excerpt:

This is an enhancement to the associative and unordered associative containers to support the manipulation of nodes. It is a pure addition to the Library.

The key to the design is a new function remove which unlinks the selected node from the container (performing the same balancing actions as erase).