Lack of pointer Typedef in STL container

[ManicQin]

Looking at vector's header I can see that they provided me with a:
typedef A::reference reference;

But there's no typedef for a pointer to A...

Don't get me wrong I can easily write vector<someting>::value_type*
but it makes me wonder why supplying a typedef for reference
and not for pointer? Any special reasons you know of?

 

[Barry]

Looking at vector's header I can see that they provided me with a:
typedef A::reference reference;

But there's no typedef for a pointer to A...

Don't get me wrong I can easily write vector<someting>::value_type*
but it makes me wonder why supplying a typedef for reference
and not for pointer? Any special reasons you know of?

C++03 has "pointer" typedef.

What's implementation you checked out?

Here I check out sgi, it has "pointer"
VC2005, it has

 

[ManicQin]

C++03 has "pointer" typedef.

What's implementation you checked out?

Here I check out sgi, it has "pointer"
VC2005, it has

You're right, The first time I checked in VS6 but after your post I
checked my VS Express and found it.
Thanks.