I'm trying to use an STL map to store a bunch of parameters that are read in from a file. As the key I'm using a string (the name of the parameter). Here's how my map ...

This is probably a simple question, but I was wondering why this:<BR><BR><pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre"> while(cin >> wordbuf) words[wordbuf]++;</pre><BR><BR>does ...