Has there been any resolution of whether the STL should be in the std
namespace?  I am currently having a conflict problem with the overloaded
operators in function.h and don't want to implement namespaces in my
code unless it is the future direction of C++ and the STL.

Also, is the October 95 release of HP's STL thread safe?  I have read
several STL documents that suggests that some STL implementation are
not.

Thanks in advance,
John Weeks


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John Weeks <mrsysv@ix.netcom.com> writes:

> Has there been any resolution of whether the STL should be in the std
> namespace?  I am currently having a conflict problem with the overloaded
> operators in function.h and don't want to implement namespaces in my
> code unless it is the future direction of C++ and the STL.

All of the standard library is in namespace std.  There was some
discusion concerning a special treatment for the operators; I don't know
what was finally decided, however.

> Also, is the October 95 release of HP's STL thread safe?  I have read
> several STL documents that suggests that some STL implementation are
> not.

I don't think that any of the current implementations are either thread
safe nor exception safe.  Basically, with the current implementations,
vector< string > results in undefined behavior, since the constructor to
string may throw a bad_alloc exception.

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