From 7651718295475742520 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,9011001c33401f25 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: kanze@lts.sel.alcatel.de (James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #40763) Subject: Re: Premises of Fleming's accusations Date: 1995/05/12 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 102473055 sender: news@lts.sel.alcatel.de references: <3o690v$mu@News1.mcs.com> <3o8qgb$d3c@punchdown.zocalo.com> organization: SEL newsgroups: comp.std.c++ In article <3orut9$546@nova.umuc.edu> COATES@EUROPA.UMUC.EDU (Ell) writes: |> In <3ornv6$63a@punchdown.zocalo.com> kal@chromatic.com writes: |> Regarding Plaugher book's copyright to portions of the C++ standard: |> > I don't know about the software (maybe it's been updated) |> > but the book is obsolete. It doesn't have STL, Locales, |> > auto_ptr etc. Iostreams have been templatized and a lot |> > different from what is in the book. Exception hierarchy |> > is different and basic_string is now STL compliant. I |> > can't think of anything in the book that exactly conforms |> > to the standard. The book seems to me to have been "hastily |> > written" and has some trivial and avoidable errors. You |> > can refer to a very good review (in the editorial in C++ |> > Report) by Stan Lippmann (no longer an AT&T employee :-)). |> Great! Plauger had a bit of bad luck in that the library section underwent a major redesign right after the book hit the presses. I'm sure Plauger would have preferred otherwise, but he does not control the committee. This said, from a usage point of view: 1) while the details actually vary considerable, much of this is transparent to the typical user, and 2) the library you have with your current compiler is probably closer to what Plauger describes that to the proposed standard. As such, I think that the book is a useful reference. And of course, Plauger's description of design issues remains valid regardless of what the final standard library looks like. -- James Kanze Tel.: (+33) 88 14 49 00 email: kanze@gabi-soft.fr GABI Software, Sarl., 8 rue des Francs-Bourgeois, F-67000 Strasbourg, France Conseils en informatique industrielle -- -- Beratung in industrieller Datenverarbeitung