From: Matthias Schabel (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-02-20 11:34:14
> bimap<X,Y> bm;
> bm.left // --> map<X,Y> : X first, Y second
> bm.right // --> map<Y,X> : Y first, X second
You may want to consider the nomenclature "forward" and "reverse" -
for directories,
this is the standard way of referring to, for example, look-up of a
telephone number
from a name and look-up of a name from a telephone number,
respectively. Reverse
also indicates that the order of the template arguments are reversed
in that case
relative to the order in which they are declared.
Matthias