Marshall Clow wrote:
Dave is correct. I meant that never removing interfaces is madness.
Anyone remember the interface for iterators before the STL? iter = <whatever> while ( iter.more ()) { // do stuff iter.next (); }
before STL? Wasn't std a new namespace? Didn't it require inclusion of a new header? That would qualify as name change. I have no idea about the above code but I don't think introduction of STL would prevent it compiling and running.
Should iterators still support this - or is it a good thing that Stepanov (and others) decided that they had a better way? [ This is not just syntax, btw ]
If I have a header x.hpp and I compile my code in the year 2000 I should be able to recompile it in the year 2008 without having to debug it again. Robert Ramey