Timothy Weber wrote:

>> In C++ (other when the added overhead really matters, confirmed by careful
>> checking or profiling) I wouldn't use C-style arrays at all. C++ has safe
>> arrays (std::vector).
> 
> Good point.
> [...]
> the correct form is
> 
>    std::vector<int> Array = std::vector<int>(5);
>    ...
>    foo(Array[5]);
> 
> ;)
> 
> But then, all STL says is that this violates a precondition of vector; 
> this may or may not produce a run-time error, and it probably won't 
> produce a compile-time error.

I don't know about compile-time errors, but AFAIK, Array.at(5) throws a
(run-time) exception while Array[5] doesn't. Don't know whether that is
standard behavior or specific to the STL I'm using, though.

Gerhard

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