Info about Boost and STL

[lallous]

Hello

Many are saying that Boost will be included in the c++ standard...Does that
mean that every new compiler release will have Boost included with it in
order conform to portability?

Does Boost use/is based on the STL?

 

[Wolfgang Kaufmann]

* Thus spoke lallous <[email protected]>:

Hallo,

Many are saying that Boost will be included in the c++ standard...Does that
mean that every new compiler release will have Boost included with it in
order conform to portability?

Does Boost use/is based on the STL?

- <http://www.boost.org/more/faq.htm>

Wolfgang.

 

[Ivan Vecerina]

| Many are saying that Boost will be included in the c++ standard...Does
that
| mean that every new compiler release will have Boost included with it in
| order conform to portability?

It means that the facilities provided by boost will probably be
reproduced by the standard library. But they will most likely be
present within namespace std::, not boost::.

A current technical report for standard library extensions, from the
C++ standard committee, already includes several components familiar
to boost users: shared_ptr, boost::function, random number generators,
tuple, regular expressions, ...
See: http://anubis.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2003/n1540.pdf
(NB: the suggested namespace for these *draft* extensions is std::tr1:: ,
but this for early/draft implementations -- not a final destination ).

| Does Boost use/is based on the STL?

boost is intended to integrate with and extend the standard library
(of which the "STL" is a subset).


hth,
Ivan