STL is much easyer to handle that lowlevel arrays and such, and it can
be quite fast as well.
Sorry, IMHO STL exemplifies the phrase ``too clever by half.'' It
really needed another round of design before being released... as my
favorite example of ``things that bit me,'' if you cast a forward
iterator to a reverse iterator you get, not an iterator pointing to
the same list element, but one pointing to the previous list element.
On the other hand, when you cast a reverse iterator to a forward
iterator you get... oops! can't do that!
The STL concept is very powerful, but its implementation is so full of
unexpected inconsistencies that it is a royal PITA.
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