[IMP-dev] Two minor cleanups

[Daniel Russel <drussel@gmail.com>]

First I added protection to the container macros to hide away certain  
implementation details.

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Second, I hadn't used the update_state function in Montecarlo since I  
had looked for states. I changed the name to update_states and fixed  
the optimizers.

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