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Berend de Boer wrote:
> Are two such container of pointers to the same base type assignment
> compatible?

In C++ at least, you can assign containers of the same type
to each other. The target container will wind up with copies
of the elements of the source container.

> And they're not when the common base type is not exactly equal (but
> one is a parent of the other for example)?

Not by direct assignment. However, all the containers have a
templated assign(InputIterator begin, InputIterator end) method,
and you can assign any sequence whose elements are compatible
with the elements of the container, including derived to base
pointers.