I somehow got the impression that the new proposed standard had it that
operators new and delete would no longer be inherited. Am I just imagining
things?

The new Sun C++ compiler does inherit them. The following writes out
"new new" and "new delete". Is that (still) what it is supposed to do?

#include <iostream.h>
#include <new.h>


template <class MemStore>
class Foo {
public:
    void *operator new(size_t size) {
 cerr << "new new" << endl;
 return new char[size];
    }
    void operator delete(void *ptr) {
 cerr << "new delete" << endl;
        delete[] (char*) ptr;
    }
};

class Bar: public Foo<tMem> {;};

int main(){
    Bar *ptr = new Bar;
    delete ptr;
    return 0;
}