[Dev] STL for_each underwhelms me

[Tanner Lovelace]

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On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 20:36, Brent Verner wrote:
> [2002-02-11 19:42] M. Mueller (bhu5nji) said:
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> | I'm going to take another look at the Josutti book.  i got the examples=
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> Beware that the Josuttis book contains some examples (especially
> WRT iostreams, IIRC) that will not work with g++-3 and libstdc++-v3
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Really?  Can you tell me which ones?  I'd be interested in
knowing which ones and why.

> Also beware of examples in Stroustrup's book as well.
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> AFAIK, the only (correct) publication regarding the newest c++
> standard is that standard itself (ISO/IEC 14882:1998)

Well, that's not too surprising.  Until hte standard was
ratified, it was moving pretty fast.
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> | I am finding the Musser book is probably better read front to back.  I =
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> | often read a book in that fashion.
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> If you haven't yet got Austern's "Generic Programming and the STL",
> I highly recommend it for a wonderful look into the concepts behind
> the design of the STL.
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I have the Austern book and Matt does know what he's talking
about, but I find it very difficult to read.  I'm much
happier with the Josuttis book.  Just my personal opinion.

Tanner
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