GCC compiler in Red Hat 9

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jan 12, 2004, Heiko Joerg Schick <info@schihei.de> wrote:

> 1. <iostream.h> is not part of standard C++. The 1998 C++ standard
> uses <iostream> (no ".h")

Actually, it is, but deprecated.  Its effect is equivalent to #include
<iostream> followed by using statements that bring in the declarations
from iostream into the global namespace.

> 2. Both <iostream> and <string> are in the "std" namespace.

Strictly speaking, header files are not in namespaces.  It's the
declarations they introduce that are.

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