You are here: Home1 / Blog2 / C++ Core Guidelines3 / C++ Core Guidelines: The Standard Library The rules to the C++ standard library are mainly about containers, strings, and iostreams. Curiously, there is no section on the standard template library (STL) algorithms in this chapter. Curiously, because there is a proverb in the C++ community: If you write an explicit loop, you don’t know the algori