From: John Beckett 

"Geo"  wrote in message
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> We already touched on templates

FYI it's likely that whatever was discussed in  an introductory class was
NOT the templates that Paul mentioned.  It would be possible to give a
mile-high overview of templates to beginners, but pretty much a waste of
time.

With your stated aim of understanding hacks etc, you probably do not want
to spend much time looking at classes, and almost no effort on templates.
Also, you do need to study pointers, despite Paul's well-founded comments
on how many people avoid them in maintainable code.

John

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