id6">Member Functions</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#free-functions" id="id7">Free functions</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#exceptions" id="id8">Exceptions</a></li>
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id3">Introduction</a></h1>
<p>The Boost Property Map library specifies statically type-safe
interfaces through which key-value pairs can be manipulated by
generic algorithms. Typically, an algorithm that