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  1. From: David Byrden <goyra@iol.ie>
  2. Message-ID: <4iekv2$jbi@nuacht.iol.ie>
  3. X-Original-Date: 16 Mar 1996 14:58:42 GMT
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  5. Date: 16 Mar 96 16:09:58 GMT
  6. Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au
  7. Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
  8. Subject: Re: Conforming compilers should compile STL?
  9. Organization: Ireland On-Line
  10. References: <199603151701.LAA06783@frodo.pswtech.com> <Pine.A32.3.91.960315223344.90639A-100000@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il>
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  17. >> This I can understand. But isn't the standard going to include an
  18. >> implementation of the STL?
  19.  
  20.    Why should it? The whole point of programming languages is that you can 
  21. specify an interface which can be met by many possible implementations.
  22.  
  23. >> It seems to me that only specifing the interface can lead to unexpected
  24. >> problems.
  25.  
  26.    Such as?
  27.  
  28.  
  29. >> One more question. If the STL is part of the proposed standard, won't
  30. >> compiler vendors HAVE to supply some implemenation of it?
  31.  
  32.  
  33.    Of course.
  34.  
  35.  
  36.                                   David
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