RE: [Plib-devel] C++ Philosophy Question

[Paul B. <pbl...@di...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Baker [mailto:sjb...@ai...]
> 
> I'm told that STL will be a part of the C++ standard in
> the next revision of the ANSI spec - that means that it'll
> be usable in a couple of years when all the older compilers
> catch up.

STL is part of the ANSI C++ spec now.  The next revision will
include a number of clarifications on implementation of some
of the STL containers (like vector will be required to be
contiguous memory, etc...).

However, I agree with you that it is still not uniformly and
consistently supported without resorting to either crazy 
configuration macros and/or relying on a particular implementation
(i.e. sgi-stl, stlport, etc...)

Paul