"Robert Ramey" <ramey@rrsd.com> writes:
To summarize, having
a) "standard conformant C++ compiler" b) a library implementation which is freely availble and depends only on having a above
is equivalent to having "conformant C++ implementation"
It's not enough to have a library implementation. The library has to implement the specification of the C++ standard. I'm not sure how close STLPort is these days. It's probably not far, though.
for Regex (and other libraries as well of course), we already have b) above - so what's the point "adding it to the standard" - which seems to me a lot of work for very little practical benefit.
There are lots of people who don't have permission to use any libraries that aren't either standard or shipped by Microsoft. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com