Re: Standard header format.

[Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>]

"Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@globalsymmetry.com> writes:

| On Saturday 05 June 2004 20:59, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| 
| > It is not a conjecture.  It is a fact.  What you state as your belief
| > simply does not hold. At best, it is an insult targetted at him.
| 
| No, I merely assumed that he was making a suggestion he expected would apply 
| to most implementation at the time he was writing. 

At the time he was writing the book, he knew far more infinitely than
you seem to believe. In particular, he took care not to write header
file when he meant "standard header". He even took the specific step
to tell the reader that users should not have tp know how the standard
headers are used in implementations.

| Rather than clutter the 
| text with several qualification, he left it stand as an imperfect yet 
| generally useful suggestion. But read what I wrote about my ability to follow 
| that suggestion: "That presents a _minor_ problem for me."

And I told you, you reached a dead end; your insisting does not seem
to match "_minor_".

| I was not suggesting Stroustrup's statement indicated that the implementation 
| is required by the Standard to provide header files.  If I thought that was 
| the case I would have referenced the relevant sections of the Standard.
| 
| Look at 9.3.2 of TC++PL(SE). In particular his use of _impl.h verses the 
| header file for users.  Explain to yourself why that concept fails to apply 
| to the Standard Library.

I don't have to explain anything to myself.

[...]
| If you cover it up with an interface,

And we do.

|  I don't have any reason to do so.

Then, don't do it.

-- Gaby