"Anthony S. H. Lee" <tony@ews360.aladdin.iii.org.tw> writes:

>I recently read an article in Dr. Dobb's Journal
>which is about STL. The author said that STL will
>be the standard C++ libraries.
>Did you guys really think so?

STL is in the Draft Standard. No one** on the C++ committee wants to
remove STL, and so far no ISO national body has asked for
STL to be removed, so it is virtually certain it will remain.

>The editor of "The C/C++ Users Journal", P.J. P,
>wrote a book, "The draft Standard C++ Library".
>In it, they are absolutely different! aren't they?

The book is based on the C++ Committee draft as of March 1994. The
draft has changed since then, particularly the library portion.

(** as far as I know)
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Hi,
"Anthony S. H. Lee" (tony@ews360.aladdin.iii.org.tw) wrote:
: I recently read an article in Dr. Dobb's Journal
: which is about STL. The author said that STL will
: be the standard C++ libraries.
: Did you guys really think so?

A large portion of the STL is PART of the C++ standard library (mainly
in the clauses 23 (Containers), 24 (Iterators), and 25 (Algorithms) but
some parts of STL are also found in other clauses).

: The editor of "The C/C++ Users Journal", P.J. P,
: wrote a book, "The draft Standard C++ Library".
: In it, they are absolutely different! aren't they?

A large portion of the C++ Draft Standard Library is not mentioned in
the book by Plauger (e.g. the STL). In addition it seems that the STL
has influenced the rest of the library a lot: thing which were not a
template before became templates (e.g. all the iostream classes are
templates according to the DWP). In this sense: The book "The draft
Standard C++ Library" is absolutely different from the library described
in the DWP. But the description in the book is much more verbose than
the DWP; at least for those entities which are found in Plauger's
book...

dk
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clamage@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Clamage) wrote:
>
>STL is in the Draft Standard. No one** on the C++ committee wants to
>remove STL, and so far no ISO national body has asked for
>STL to be removed, so it is virtually certain it will remain.
>
>(** as far as I know)

  On the other hand several National Bodies are almost
certain to reject the Standard if STL is _removed_.

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