From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham
	autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,b30bd69fa8f63cb2
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-12 14:58:09 PST
Path: 
 archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail
From: mheaney@on2.com (Matthew Heaney)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: C bug of the day
Date: 12 Jun 2003 14:58:08 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com/
Message-ID: <1ec946d1.0306121358.3e97731e@posting.google.com>
References: <1054751321.434656@master.nyc.kbcfp.com>
 <memo.20030605193115.9141A@brangdon.madasafish.com>
 <d6652001.0306100323.338a2a1c@posting.google.com>
 <bc4n70$fei5u$1@ID-175126.news.dfncis.de>
 <ba162549.0306111431.366b59ba@posting.google.com>
 <bc9k7c$b53$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.162.65.162
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Trace: posting.google.com 1055455088 13536 127.0.0.1 (12 Jun 2003 21:58:08
 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Jun 2003 21:58:08 GMT
Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39067
Date: 2003-06-12T21:58:08+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> wrote in message news:<bc9k7c$b53$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>...
> 
> And what about the STL being possible with C++ only?  Except
> for tricky and useful compile time Lisp in C++ templates, and
> ()-operator magic sugar, I don't think this is so, ask Matthew
> Heaney about Charles.

The statement that "STL is only possible in C++" is false.  The
Charles library constitutes a proof-by-counterexample.

http://home.earthlink.net/~matthewjheaney/charles/


> Most of the components are licensed, not in the public domain,
> at least not in the US public domain, afaict.  

The components in the Charles library use the GMGPL.