Why is it bad practice to derive a class from stl containers such as std::list?

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Published on 2010-05-01T18:27:09Z Indexed on 2010/05/01 18:37 UTC
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I've seen it declared that it is bad practice to derive a class from stl containers such as std::list.

Why is this the case? What issues does violating this cause?

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