Chapter 17
STL’s Stack and Queue
The STL containers you have seen so far have all provided options for storing and retrieving values and are suited to different circumstances. The stack and queue containers are designed for different reasons. Although they do store values, their behavior is much more important. I’ll show you exactly how these containers behave in this chapter.
Note The game examples in this book don’t use these containers, but I didn’t want to leave them out. You might find a stack useful in a game where you are building a UI system and want to track the path to the current screen. I’ve also found a queue to be useful in event systems where you wish to process events in the exact order in which they were received.
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