In article <861@dawes.win.net>, Beman Dawes <beman@dawes.win.net> wrote:
>
>Valarray and related class templates are part of the numerics
>library. (Chapter 26, now that the library has been broken into
>several chapters.) Valarray is not a replacement for dynarray.
>Valarray can safely be ignored by programmers not concerned about
>numerical operations.
>
What else is in the "numerics library"? Where can programmers who
are concerned with numerical operations get a hold of this information (I
know, I know, buy a copy of the draft standard). Could someone send me
this infomation?

mark

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In article <D4KywC.G1M@world.std.com>, Thomas E Janzen (tej@world.std.com) writes:
>Is it true that the IEEE C++ committee abandoned the dynarray and went
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The ANSI/ISO C++ committee is committee enough, I think:-)

>with something complicated called valarray?

Actually, the dynarray class template was removed in favor of the
STL vector class template.  It did not make sense to have two
library classes with very similar functionality.

Valarray and related class templates are part of the numerics
library. (Chapter 26, now that the library has been broken into
several chapters.) Valarray is not a replacement for dynarray.
Valarray can safely be ignored by programmers not concerned about
numerical operations.

-- Beman    (beman@dawes.win.net)