From: Andrei Alexandrescu (andrewalex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-04-17 09:49:30
"Emily Winch" <emily_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:3CBE752C.9010702_at_blueumbrella.net...
> I think this is something that we simply don't know yet (OK, to
remove
> the generalisation: I don't know it yet). Containers that come
> immediately to my mind as potentially useful are a tree, and an
> associative container (for making named template parameters out
of!).
[snip]
Lists have the "closure property" - they can represent any data
structure, no matter how complex, just not always efficiently. For
details you may want to consult SICP.
Andrei