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Designing Components with the C++ STL: A New Approach to Programming (Revised Edition) Review by Keith
A mistitled book
The book proceeds to describe STL like all the other STL books, but doesn't stick to its title, i.e. it doesn't provide any information on extending STL.
The book is somewhat detailed in its description of STL. It covers contains and algorithms. However, although many of the more esoteric algorithms are listed, the description of them is poor and there is no explanation why they are there at all. I found this frustrating. The truth be known, with some of these you're better off reading the source.
Most annoying, is there is no help in extending STL. I bought the book specifically for this purpose. It's name implied more than a straight description of the "stuff" in STL. There isn't a clear description of the names your new cool container must support for example, or even sample code. I may as well not have had the book in this regard.
I did email the author regarding the first point and he was kind enough to reply.
I think if the book's title implied a straight description of STL then it would be more representative of the content. I think that would be better, because the present name is misleading.