Re: STL annoyances
On 2010-05-26 10:28:34 -1000, Dann Corbit said:
How is it that the STL (which is part of the standard) can be so utterly
incompatible between various compilers?
For instance, with Microsoft VC++, to include functional, the
surrounding namespace is cliext. But with g++, the namespace is tr1.
functional is not yet part of the C++ standard.
If compilers can change the namespace willy-nilly, then it's not a
standard at all. Do these different compiler vendors really not realize
that they are using different namespaces?
In addition, unordered_map may or may not be present. Hasn't
unordered_map been around for a long time now?
No. It's part of tr1, but not yet part of the standard.
It seems like the days
when the only place to get an implementation of the STL was stlport were
better because at least it was the same. Now (to quote Forrest Gump),
the STL is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you are going
to get.
Pretty much every implementation provides what's required by the
current (2003) standard. The complaints above relate to things that
aren't in the 2003 standard, but will be in C++0x. Wait a year or two.
--
Pete
Roundhouse Consulting, Ltd. (www.versatilecoding.com) Author of "The
Standard C++ Library Extensions: a Tutorial and Reference
(www.petebecker.com/tr1book)
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