Chapter 1. The Standard Template Library
So far, C++ is the best language I’ve discovered to say what I want to say. | ||
| --Alexander Stepanov | ||
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| --Kevin Bealer | ||
Writing an introduction to the Standard Template Library (STL) would be a book in itself, and that’s not the book I’m writing. There are several such books (some listed in the Bibliography), and I recommend that you have at least one of them in your head, or at hand, before you start reading this one.
Core Concepts
The STL is based around six core concepts: containers, iterators, algorithms, function objects, adaptors, and allocators. Containers store objects. An iterator is a data-structure-independent abstraction used to access ...
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