aug-2001 libstdc++ outstanding

[Jason Merrill]

>>>>> "Phil" == Phil Edwards <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:41:26AM -0700, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
>> > Dunno.  From what I've garnered on the newsgroups, this seems to be a
>> > language issue with a known workaround.
>> 
>> Ok. can I call this resolved?

> I think so.  While having to re-open namespace std in order to declare op<<
> with a pair<>-of-whatever's is not intuitive to the beginner, it seems to be
> required by the language, as far as I can get people to talk about it.  :-)

A language approach to the issue might be to say that the associated
classes of a class template instantiation include the associated classes of
its template arguments.  But that would be a language change.

Jason