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Ted Dennison wrote:
> Since we mostly have a package worked out (at great pains) for lists,
> hopefully they will concentrate on defining what other containers are
> needed and how best to extend what we have.

I was just reading somewhere (exactly where escapes me) of a recent
survey done on C++ programmers who have started using the STL. There
was some surprise to discover that the most used container was map.
Apparently what happens is that once programmers have map available,
they begin using it all over the place, replacing little local ad-hoc
lookup structures such as linear searches through arrays.