[Effective-cpp] Item 35: Familiarize yourself with the language standard

Terje Slettebø tslettebo at chello.no
Tue Jun 10 08:32:43 EDT 2003


>From: "Gregory Haley" <ghaley at venaca.com>

> To quote from an external source, Musser,
> Derge, and Saini, "STL Tutorial and Reference Guide", the "STL consists of
> six major components:  containers, generic algorithms, iterators, function
> objects, adaptors, and allocators."

What also may be worth mentioning is what is not listed above, and what is
not directly represented in the code: Generic concepts. This is arguably one
of the most important contributions of the STL.


Regards,

Terje




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