DM> I disagree.  You merely need to know how to use it, not how it works
That's valid for my students, not for me. I have to have some  reserve
to what I teach.
DM> it's more likely to do with the fact that you _aren't supposed to kn
DM> This is due to the fact that no two implementations are necessarily
DM> implemented the same way.  For example, the current implementation o
Let's  distinguish between the draft standard library and the STL. The
STL as I downloaded it from HP some years ago  (that's  what  I  wrote
about)  didn't require member templates. I learnt a lot about template
programming looking through that code.
I  agree  that  I  don't  need  to  understand  every  detail  of  an
implementation  of  the  draft  standard  container/iterator/algorithm
library. But looking through some key features like  traits  can  tell
you a lot, too.
Thomas
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