8 Oct
2006
8 Oct
'06
7:25 p.m.
Robert Ramey wrote:
What is the point of having a library standard anyway?
I have always viewed the importance of a library standard as a means of specifying that an implementation which supports the language must provide the library also. This automatically creates a common set of functionality for all implementations of the language. I view that as a good thing but it certainly does not mean that the library standard must be the only library which works for nearly all implementations, as Boost has shown.