[Interest] initialising a dictionary-type container instance with a static table?

[René J. V. Bertin]

Konstantin Shegunov wrote:

> Then I'd vote for Thiago's solution. The only drawback with it is that it
> requires C++11 support, but that should be available pretty much anywhere
> nowadays.

Still quite a sizeable population of users of older Mac OS X versions out there, 
who don't have proper C++11 support unless they do a libc++ conversion hack. And 
even then I'm not 100% sure that initialiser lists are available and/or work 
reliably.

R.