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An Associative Sequence allows efficient retrieval of elements based on
keys. Like associative sequences in <a href="http://www.boost.org/libs/mpl/index.html" target="_top">MPL</a>,
and unlike associative containers in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Template_Library" target="_top">STL</a>,
Fusion associative sequences have no implied ordering relation. Instead,
type identity is used to impose an equivalence relation on keys, and the
order in which sequence elements are traversed during iteration is left
unspecified. In addition, unlike <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Template_Library" target="_top">STL</a>,
Associative Sequences have mutable iterators. This is due to the fact that
there is no associated ordering relation and the runtime value of the keys
themselves do not have any effect on the associativity of the sequence.
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<dt><span class="term"><tt class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">s</span></tt></span></dt>
<dd><p>
An Associative Sequence
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<dt><span class="term"><tt class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">S</span></tt></span></dt>
<dd><p>
An Associative Sequence type
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<dt><span class="term"><tt class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">K</span></tt></span></dt>
<dd><p>
An arbitrary <span class="emphasis"><em>key</em></span> type
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<dt><span class="term"><tt class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">o</span></tt></span></dt>
<dd><p>
An arbitrary object
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<dt><span class="term"><tt class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">e</span></tt></span></dt>
<dd><p>
A Sequence element
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Expressions</a>
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For any Associative Sequence the following expressions must be valid:
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Expression
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Return type
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Type Requirements
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Runtime Complexity
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<tt class="computeroutput"><a href="../intrinsic/functions/has_key.html" title="has_key"><tt class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">has_key</span></tt></a><span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="identifier">K</span><span class="special">&gt;(</span><span class="identifier">s</span><span class="special">)</span></tt>
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<a href="http://www.boost.org/libs/mpl/doc/refmanual/integral-constant.html" target="_top">MPL
Boolean Constant</a>. Convertible to bool.
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Constant
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<tt class="computeroutput"><a href="../intrinsic/functions/at_key.html" title="at_key"><tt class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">at_key</span></tt></a><span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="identifier">K</span><span class="special">&gt;(</span><span class="identifier">s</span><span class="special">)</span></tt>
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Any type
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Constant
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<tt class="computeroutput"><a href="../intrinsic/functions/at_key.html" title="at_key"><tt class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">at_key</span></tt></a><span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="identifier">K</span><span class="special">&gt;(</span><span class="identifier">s</span><span class="special">)</span>
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Any type
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<tt class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">s</span></tt> is mutable and
<tt class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">e</span> <span class="special">=</span>
<span class="identifier">o</span></tt>, where <tt class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">e</span></tt> is the first element in the
sequence, is a valid expression.
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Constant
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Type Expressions</a>
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Compile Time Complexity
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<tt class="computeroutput"><a href="../intrinsic/metafunctions/has_key.html" title="has_key"><tt class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">result_of</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">has_key</span></tt></a><span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="identifier">S</span><span class="special">,</span>
<span class="identifier">K</span><span class="special">&gt;::</span><span class="identifier">type</span></tt>
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Amortized constant time
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<tt class="computeroutput"><a href="../intrinsic/metafunctions/at_key.html" title="at_key"><tt class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">result_of</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">at_key</span></tt></a><span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="identifier">S</span><span class="special">,</span>
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Amortized constant time
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<tt class="computeroutput"><a href="../intrinsic/metafunctions/value_at_key.html" title="value_at_key"><tt class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">result_of</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">value_at_key</span></tt></a><span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="identifier">S</span><span class="special">,</span>
<span class="identifier">K</span><span class="special">&gt;::</span><span class="identifier">type</span></tt>
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Amortized constant time
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<tt class="computeroutput"><a href="../intrinsic/functions/at_key.html" title="at_key"><tt class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">at_key</span></tt></a><span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="identifier">K</span><span class="special">&gt;(</span><span class="identifier">s</span><span class="special">)</span></tt>. In
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element type using <tt class="computeroutput"><a href="../intrinsic/metafunctions/at_key.html" title="at_key"><tt class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">result_of</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">at_key</span></tt></a><span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="identifier">S</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">K</span><span class="special">&gt;</span></tt>.The element at <tt class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">K</span></tt>
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<tt class="computeroutput"><a href="../intrinsic/metafunctions/value_at_key.html" title="value_at_key"><tt class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">result_of</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">value_at_key</span></tt></a><span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="identifier">S</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">N</span><span class="special">&gt;</span></tt>.
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Semantics</a>
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<tt class="computeroutput"><a href="../intrinsic/functions/has_key.html" title="has_key"><tt class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">has_key</span></tt></a><span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="identifier">K</span><span class="special">&gt;(</span><span class="identifier">s</span><span class="special">)</span></tt>
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A boolean Integral Constant <tt class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">c</span></tt>
such that <tt class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">c</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">value</span> <span class="special">==</span>
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is one or more elements with the key <tt class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">k</span></tt>
in <tt class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">s</span></tt>; see <a href="../intrinsic/functions/has_key.html" title="has_key"><tt class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">has_key</span></tt></a>.
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The element associated with the key <tt class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">K</span></tt>
in the sequence <tt class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">s</span></tt>;
see <a href="../intrinsic/functions/at.html" title="at"><tt class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">at</span></tt></a>.
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