#include <vector>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

struct Entry
{
	string name;
	int number;
};

template< class T > class Vec: public vector< T >
{
public:
	Vec(): vector< T >(){}
	Vec(int s): vector< T >(s){}
	
	T& operator[](int i) { return vector<T>::at(i); }	
	const T& operator[](int i) const { return vector<T>::at(i); } // oups, forgotten to put last const keyword
};

Vec< Entry > tel(1000);

void print_entry(int i)
{
	cout << tel[i].name << ' ' << tel[i].number << '\n';
}

int main()
{
	try
	{
		print_entry(1000);
	}
	catch(out_of_range)
	{
		std::cerr << "Domain error\n";
		return 1;
	}
	catch(...)
	{
		std::cerr << "Unknow exception\n";
		return 1;
	}
	return 0;
}

Using built-in specs.
Target: i486-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,treelang --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.1.3 --program-suffix=-4.1 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-mpfr --enable-checking=release i486-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)

vec.cpp: In instantiation of ‘Vec<Entry>’:
vec.cpp:22:   instantiated from here
vec.cpp:19: error: ‘const T& Vec<T>::operator[](int) [with T = Entry]’ cannot be overloaded
vec.cpp:18: error: with ‘T& Vec<T>::operator[](int) [with T = Entry]’
vec.cpp: In function ‘int main()’:
vec.cpp:35: error: expected type-specifier before ‘out_of_range’
vec.cpp:35: error: ‘...’ handler must be the last handler for its try block