Jiri Soukup (http://www.amazon.com/Taming-Pattern-Classes-Persistence-Projects/dp/0201528266/ http://www.amazon.com/Taming-Pattern-Classes-Persistence-Pro... I'

Jiri Soukup (http://www.amazon.com/Taming-Pattern-Classes-Persistence-Projects/dp/0201528266/ http://www.amazon.com/Taming-Pattern-Classes-Persistence-Pro... I've sworn off using C++ in the future, but keep this one book using it handy, it's got a lot of generally useful advice, much from hard lessons learned in VLSI CAD and other early industrial uses of C++) is fond of these, and I've found them very useful in times past. Particularly elegant in that they eliminate special case code for the beginning and ending of the list.