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- From: clamage@Eng.sun.com (Steve Clamage)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
- Subject: Re: hash_XXX containers?
- Date: 6 Feb 1996 16:07:43 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Approved: clamage@eng.sun.com (comp.std.c++)
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- In article Grv@falcon.daytonoh.attgis.com, Dick Menninger <Dick.Menninger@daytonoh.attgis.com> writes:
- >> ==========Steve Clamage, 2/4/96==========
- >>
- >> For every person who wants just one more vital feature added to
- >> the draft, someone else wants the standard to be declared
- >> finished and published. The Committee has decided not to add
- >> any more features, and to fix the remaining problems with
- >> what we already have.
- >
- >Since I have been something of a pot sturrer on similar
- >issues, it may come as a surprise that I completely endorse
- >this stand as the only possible course for the committee.
- >The language has not fully grown up, particularly in STL-related
- >issues. Yet it desparately needs to leave home and grow up
- >after it does. ...
- >
- >So, how does growth continue in such a forced, imperfect
- >circumstance? "It will not be in the standard" has to be
- >a premise of ANY answer.
-
- Let's take STL hash tables as an example. A rather complete proposal has
- been submitted, and some implementations of it currently exist. If it
- proves useful, it will be a common extension in implementations.
-
- The Standard goes up for review 5 years after being adopted. (The C
- Standard is now undergoing such a review.) At that time, new features
- that have enjoyed wide support can be added to the standard. (A
- number of new features are likey to be added to C, for example, in the
- current round of activities.)
-
- ---
- Steve Clamage, stephen.clamage@eng.sun.com
-
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