Re: To STL or not to?
"Stephan Rose" <nospam@spammer.com> wrote in message
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Hey everyone,
I was just wondering what the general consensus is on STL these days.
I think that if I remember right, several years ago, most people (if not
everyone) I knew anyway stayed far away from it.
I then switched to C# for several years and didn't worry about it much,
but having switched back to more C++ work earlier this year, I was just
wondering about that. =)
One of my projects does make heavy use of various arrays where I am
currently using custom made classes for that purpose and here I was just
pondering if potentially STL may be a better idea.
Any thoughts / suggestions would be appreciated,
I make extensive use of the standard containers of all types (vector, set,
map, etc...). There seems to be little penalty for using them as long as
you try to keep in your head that it can be expensive to copy an entire
container, passing by reference is prefered.
As far as this group goes, I would think the general consensus would be to
use the STL.
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