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From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <alejandro@mosteo.com>
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Subject: Re: Vector of Vectors.
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Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:15:26 +0100
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Peter C. Chapin wrote:

> Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> 
> 
>>> Surely there must be a straight forward way to do this!
>> 
>> I'd probably use Update_Element.
> 
> Okay, thanks. That sounds like a reasonably approach.
> 
> I don't mind the extra typing, honestly, and some extra "complexity" is
> also acceptable since this isn't something I need to do often (in
> general). Being straight forward conceptually is more important and
> Update_Element seems to satisfy that criteria.

To be fair, since I was the one throwing the typing bit, this kind of 
"heavyweight" constructs are sparingly needed (in my use cases) when using 
the standard containers. And in any case you can write a wrapper once and 
hide it for good.