Chapter 10The Standard Template Library
- The capabilities offered by the Standard Template Library (STL)
- How to use smart pointers
- How to create and use containers
- How to use iterators with containers
- The types of algorithms that are available with the STL, and how you can apply the more common ones
- How to use function objects with the STL
- How to define lambda expressions and use them with the STL
- How to use polymorphic function wrappers with lambda expressions
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WHAT IS THE STANDARD TEMPLATE LIBRARY?
As its name implies, the Standard Template Library is a library of standard class and function templates. You can use these templates to create a wide range of powerful general-purpose classes for organizing your data, as well as functions for processing that data in various ways. The STL is defined by the standard for C++ and is therefore always available with a conforming compiler. Because of its broad applicability, the STL can greatly simplify programming in many of your applications.
I’ll first explain, in general terms, the kinds of resources the STL provides and how they interact with one another, before diving into the details of working examples. The STL contains six ...
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