_top"><span class="bold"><strong>The Standard Librarian:
      Containers of Incomplete Types</strong></span></a>):
    </p>
<p>
      <span class="quote">&#8220;<span class="quote"><span class="emphasis"><em>Unlike most of my columns, this one is about something you
      can't do with the C++ Standard library: put incomplete types in one of the
      standard containers. This column explains why you might want to do this, why
      the standardization committee banned it even though they knew it was usefu