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12 Naturally, the ability to program generically different associative containers, is beneficial.
13 The distinction in this library between <a href = "data_type_defs.html">data_type</a>s and
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19 The generic utility classes ease static detection of different associative-container
20 types (<i>e.g.</i>, whether they are map or multimap types), and the extraction of data from iterators.