Extended STL, Volume 1: Collections and Iterators

Chapter 13. Inferred Interface Adaptation: Compile-Time Adaptation of Interface-Incomplete Types

	It is better to stay silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
	--Abraham Lincoln

	But we don’t need to know the Latin bit. Why is everyone always going back to Latin? It was ages ago.
	--Karl Pilkington

Introduction

Adaptor class templates are used to convert a class, or a related group of classes, from an existing interface to a new interface. Consider the std::stack class template, which is used to adapt sequence containers to an interface that exhibits the stack operations push() and pop(), as shown in Listing 13.1. This works because all the methods of std::stack are implemented in terms of the public interface of the adapted ...