Re: Is STL of bad quality?
On Mar 4, 11:25 pm, Seungbeom Kim <musip...@bawi.org> wrote:
On 2011-02-23 13:35, ptyxs wrote:
On Feb 22, 11:17 pm, Seungbeom Kim <musip...@bawi.org> wrote:
* By the way, what you mean by "STL" is a part of the standard library
but doesn't have an official name like "STL". STL did influence the
standard library, which incorporated most of STL, but strictly speaking,
STL is an entity that exists separately from the standard library.
So, unless you're talking about that library published by SGI, it's
better to just talk about "the standard library" than "STL".
Nope.
Bjarne Stroustup, writes in Programming : Principles and Practise
Using C++, section 20.2
The C++ Standard Library provides a framework for dealing with data as
sequences of elements, called STL. STL is usually said to be an
acronym for "standard template library". The STL is the part of the
ISO C++ standard library that provides containers (such as vector,
list and map) and generic algorithms (such as sort, find and
accumulate). Thus we can -and do - refer to facilities, such as
vector, as being part both of "the STL" and "the standard library".
Other standard library features, such as ostream and C-style string
functions are not part of the STL.
"
Is that an official interpretation? That is, do we officially
call some part of the C++ standard library as STL?
The term "STL" is not used in the C++ standard, as far as I
know. It is a widely used term in C++ tech-speak however.
Historically, it was first used by Stepanov, and if we restrict
its meaning to the original meaning, the C++ standard library and
STL are two completely different things. Words do change their
meanings with time, however; in this case, the word STL has
acquired a number of different meanings, which means that you
can't really use it effectively unless you specify what you mean
by it.
[...]
STL refers to a different entity published by SGI before the first C++
standard came out. Most of it has been incorporated into the C++ standard
library, but not all of it; e.g. hash_{set,map} and rope are in STL but
not in the C++ standard library. Therefore, STL is not a subset of the
C++ standard library.
Neither rope nor basic_string were in Stepanov's original STL.
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James Kanze
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