On extension headers and ease of use

[Phil Edwards]

On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 10:39:54AM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> And in fact, that some implementations made the mistake to put their
> extensions in std:: is now causing serious grief.  Not only hash_map
> won't be standardized with the exact interface, but the name hash_map
> won't be standardized at all.

Yes.  We're in this situation because of ill-informed decisions to add stuff
to std::.  There aren't many options (for free software) other than taking
it back out (and enabling some wrappers, some backwards compatability,
some helper functions, whatever).

Phil

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