On 05.06.10 12:51, Warp wrote:
>> D.5 Standard C library headers [depr.c.headers]
>> 2 Each C header, whose name has the form name.h, behaves as if each name
>> placed in the Standard library namespace by the corresponding cname header
>> is also placed within the namespace scope of the namespace std and is
>> followed by an explicit using declaration (7.3.3)
>
>> LOL, the bad, bad standard uses "using declarations" for whole files. How
>> can those amateurs dare!
>
>    Perhaps you don't understand what "compatibility" and "deprecated" mean?
>
>    In English those words mean in this context "compilers should implement
> .h versions of standard header files for compatibility with code written
> for pre-standard C++ compilers, but these headers should be considered
> deprecated and might be removed at any time in the future".

Written for "pre-standard C++ compilers" - LOL. Seems you missed that C++ is 
not a successor to the ISo C standard. That standard is well defined and 
quite actively developed: <http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/> . But 
hey, what do I know, I don't even speak English.

	Thorsten

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