Re: best stl library
on Fri Aug 10 2007, Lance Diduck <lancediduck-AT-nyc.rr.com> wrote:
Then there was a particularly egregious instance of swapping out the
standard libs at the last company I worked for. In this case a team
that considered the STL "logically flawed" had some pet ideas about
runtime selectable allocators, and to get others to use these
allocators, actually took stlport, modified it to suit themselves
[actually making it non-standard in the process], and then somehow
convinced the build team to swap out the native version for this
one.
Does this have anything to do with
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1850.pdf or
has the same idea now cropped up in several places?
They could have just made their own containers and such outside of
namespace std, but they feared no one would use it if it were not in
namespace std. At least now I hear that everybody involved regards
this now as a huge mistake, but alas, so many developers are using
these implementation details that they can't go back....
Oops :-)
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