C++ STL: Can arrays be used transparently with STL functions?

Question

I was under the assumption that STL functions could be used only with STL data containers (like vector) until I saw this piece of code:

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Answer 1

The introduction to boost::array (a simple templated wrapper for conventional arrays, which also defines STL-compatible iterator types and begin()/end() etc) contains some interesting discussion of their degree of compatability with STL.