Re: std::set::erase(iterator) missing return value

[Thomas Krebs]

Ulrich Eckhardt schrieb:
> Thomas Krebs <Thomas_Krebsatgmxdotde> wrote:
> > trying to port some code to Fedora Core 5 with installed gcc 4.1.0 I
> > found that std::set::erase(iterator) returns void.
> > I don't have the standard document, but should this method return
> > the position to the next element in the set?
>
> It's a piece that was not adopted from the STL, the standard says it
> returns void. Workaround is typically to use the postincrement operator on
> the passed iterator.
>
> Just wondering, what standardlibrary are you porting from?

VC 7.1, returns the incremented iterator...