From: myknees AT aol DOT com (Myknees)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: RHIDE and STL
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Date: 11 Aug 1998 22:37:36 GMT
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In article <6qlhp0$orl$1 AT news-hrz DOT uni-duisburg DOT de>, michael DOT mauch AT gmx DOT de
(Michael Mauch) writes:

>On Sun, 09 Aug 1998 15:28:17 -0300, Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca> wrote:
>
>> What do you mean by 'STL'?  Do you mean STandard Library?
>
>He means Standard Template Library, a (free) library that has made it
>into the ANSI/ISO C++ standard to put an end on the thousands of C++
>libraries that all do the same, but each one a bit different. It's also
>included in the gpp281b.zip for DJGPP.

Wow.  I was waiting for a good reason to get version 2.8.1, and this might be
it.  Does the new version support templates the way Stroustrup discribes them
in the third edition (1997) of _The C++ Programming Language_?

I've been trying to figure out the docs for 2.7.2.1 when they are talking about
templates.  It sounds like they are using a cludge where you run a script on
your source to get headers and .cc files that have specializations of the
templates (i.e. regular stuff--not templates) instead of the templates
themselves.  

If the new version supports templates more directly, I will go get it. 
Otherwise I will start trying to install web servers on my computer.

--Ed (Myknees)