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- From: Ehud Lamm <mslamm@pluto.MSCC.huji.AC.IL>
- Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.960315223344.90639A-100000@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il>
- X-Original-Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 22:37:49 +0200
- Path: in1.uu.net!bounce-back
- Date: 16 Mar 96 09:48:22 GMT
- Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au
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- Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
- Subject: Re: Conforming compilers should compile STL?
- References: <199603151701.LAA06783@frodo.pswtech.com>
- In-Reply-To: <199603151701.LAA06783@frodo.pswtech.com>
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- On Fri, 15 Mar 1996, Rob Sartin wrote:
-
- > In article <QQahcw08893.199603150939@relay2.UU.NET> you write:
- > >What version of the STL source is going to be in the standard?
- > >
- > >I ask this since when I asked IBM whether C++/370 will compile the HP STL
- > >source, I was told to go ahead and check it out myself.
- >
- > Good advice. There is no standard yet and no guarantee that the
- > STL *implementation* follows the draft.
- >
- > No. You are making the mistake of assuming that because the STL
- > interface is part of the standard that the copy of STL you happen
- > to have must use an implementation that follows the standard. It
- > is quite possible, indeed likely because the standard is a moving
- > target and STL was developed using a small number of existing
- > compilers, that the STL implementation does not follow the draft
- > standard. The same is true of any particular implementation of
- > any of the features required by the standard.
- >
-
- This I can understand. But isn't the standard going to include an
- implementation of the STL?
-
- It seems to me that only specifing the interface can lead to unexpected
- problems.
-
- As far as I know other parts of the standard library are descirbed with
- the implementation. Or is the implementation I see in magazines just the
- authors fancy?
-
- One more question. If the STL is part of the proposed standard, won't
- compiler vendors HAVE to supply some implemenation of it?
-
- Ehud Lamm mslamm@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il
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