[Plib-devel] C++ Philosophy Question

[Bill W. <bil...@ch...>]

Hi all:

Not to start any religious debates here, but are there any guiding principles in use of C++ language/library features for developers on plib?  I'd like to make use of STL and standard string-s, for example, but it has not appeared in the existing codebase (that I've seen), and I wanted to make sure that I'm not creating problems for other users (depending on what version of what compiler one uses, this might not fly).  A few other constructs I haven't seen used (much?) are templates, references, operator overloading - do people feel these are trouble-prone?

Thanks for any guidance!

Bill Weiland