The
goal of this chapter was not just to introduce the STL containers in some
considerable depth (of course, not every detail could be covered here, but you
should have enough now that you can look up further information in the other
resources). My higher hope is that this chapter has made you grasp the
incredible power available in the STL, and shown you how much faster and more
efficient your programming activities can be by using and understanding the STL.
The
fact that I could not escape from introducing some of the STL algorithms in
this chapter suggests how useful they can be. In the next chapter you’ll
get a much more focused look at the algorithms.