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From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-07-22 15:17:16


At 05:01 PM 7/20/2002, Mark Rodgers wrote:

>From: "Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]>
>>
>> As Gennaro Prota mentioned, the only headers are C++ Standard Library
>> headers. The standard has no notion of a user header, only a user
source
>> file.
>
>I'm not sure how you arrive at that conclusion. As I noted in a another
>message, my interpretation is different.
>
>However, I don't think the standard is clear, and you may be right that
>that is the intention of the standard, even though I don't think it is
>spelled out. I personally don't believe it is the intention, since user
>headers are widely (universally?) supported and widely used.
>
>But how can we be sure? Perhaps a DR along the lines of "the standard is
>unclear..." would sort it out one way or the other.

Yes, agreed.

I'll write up a Defect Report and submit it.

--Beman


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