New Skill Forged: Effective STL

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Effective STL: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of the Standard Template Library by Scott Meyers. 260 pages.

50 specific guidelines for correct, efficient STL usage. Meyers covers the non-obvious pitfalls: container selection traps, iterator invalidation, erase-remove idiom, equality vs equivalence in associative containers, sort algorithm selection, and functor design rules.

What this skill teaches Claude to do:

• Identify the 10 most common STL container misuse patterns and fix them
• Choose correctly between sorted vector and map/set for lookup vs insert workloads
• Apply erase-remove idiom correctly for sequence and associative containers
• …and 6 more

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