Renaming first and second of a map iterator

Question

Is there any way to rename the first and second accessor functions of a map iterator. I understand they have these names because of the underlying pair which represents the

Answer 1

If you're just concerned about readability you could do something like this:

typedef map AdjacencyList;
struct adjacency
{
    adjacency(AdjacencyList::iterator& it) 
      : vertex(it->first), edge(it->second) {}
    Vertex& vertex;
    Edge& edge;
};

And then:

Vertex v = adjacency(it).vertex;