Re: [Tapioca-devel] Ideas on the plumbing protocol

[Richard F. <rj...@fi...>]

On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Eric Lee Green wrote:

> Yeah. I made it to page 135 of Stroustrup V3 today. I think part of the
> deal is that we programmed in Python for 2 years, and thus know more about
> object-oriented programming than the last time you programmed in C++. You
> probably treated it a lot like "C" with some extra syntactic sugar last
> time, though you're right, namespaces are new, they weren't in Stroustrup
> version 2.  I'm impressed with some of the STL classes, like hash tables,
> growable vectors, real strings (as vs. arrays of chars) that aren't
> succeptible to buffer overflows when you concatenate them together, etc. I
> smell some cross-breeding with Java here... Stroustrup V2 didn't have this
> fancy stuff.

Oh, and another favorite -- stringstream classes that provide a way to
produce formatted strings in memory without worrying about buffer
overflows.  Nifty!

But yes, it does seem like the STL classes, which previously existed
"outside" of C++, have been incorporated into the language definition.

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Richard Fish, Unix/Linux Software Engineer, rj...@fi...