Title: Not competitive with other books on this topic
Product review: This 310-page book contains about 75 pages of information. It makes a strong beginning with an overview of the main features and concepts of STL, but the rest consists of alphabetically ordered and painfully repetitive specifications for each class.Usage examples are contrived with no connection to real-world programming problems. They take the form of complete main functions with output displayed on the user's screen.The index is incomplete and crucial definitions are either omitted or circular.A better choice is Mark Nelson's "C++ Programmers Guide to the Standard Template Library" (ISBN 1-56884-314-3).
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