Marc Mutz writes: > > > hm... seems like a bug in your STL... > > > > I guess SGI simply doesn't support "c" style header files > > yet. (that's what i meant...) > > Um? The company who wrote the most famous STL doesn't support cmath and > namespace std??? > > Sigh. One braindead compiler doesn't understand static const > initalizations in the class declaration, the other doesn't support > cmath. When will we end up using C again? > > > I see no reason to use them. (Fixed) > > The reason is that you can import single identifiers from namespace std. > That way, you can see what you actually need from the #includes you can achieve the same effect by doing namespace std { extern "C" { #include "math.h" } } cheers domi -- Microsoft should abandon the funny looking Windows logo and just hoist the Jolly Roger. -- LinuxToday