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In article <teYeb.5819$6C4.4794@pd7tw1no>,
 Steven Fisher <sdfisher@spamcop.net> wrote:

> Howard Hinnant wrote:
> 
> > With the gauntlet thrown, and the overwhelming reader response just 
> > daring me to try and make this puppy thread safe, I just couldn't resist 
> > the challenge. :-)  (is that crickets I hear chirping?  oh never mind)
> 
> I'm reading and learning, I just don't have any comments right now. It's 
> stuff I'm going to need one day, I can already tell, but nothing I can 
> use yet. So by all means, keep writing things! :)

Thanks Steven.

> Only vaguely releated: Have you considered starting a web page like 
> Ben's palmoswerks to organize these tips in?

I've thought about it, but haven't done it yet.  I do have some older 
tips at:

http://home.twcny.rr.com/hinnant/tip_archive/

Unfortunately some of these tips date back several years and have become 
obsolete.  However others are still just as valid today.  I need to sort 
out which is which and throw out the old.

For example tip #2 on this site is "On the Refcounting of string".  But 
the Pro 9 string is no longer refcounted.  And the Pro 9 string is 
available to Pro 8 customers by looking in the Thrill Seekers folder on 
the reference CD.  The whole point of that tip was that you could choose 
whether or not you wanted a refcounted string with #define 
_MSL_NO_REFCOUNT_STRING.  But today _MSL_NO_REFCOUNT_STRING no longer 
has any effect.

Tip #12 "vector - Pro 6" starts out with announcing a bug and how to fix 
it.  Needless to say, that bugfix has long since shipped! :-)  And 
indeed, it is high time for a completely new tip on vector since the Pro 
9 vector has a completely revamped and turbo charged engine under the 
hood (just try inserting into a vector<vector<string> > and see if you 
notice anything really really fast ;-) ).

Thanks for the gentle tap in the backside.  I'll try to update this 
site, and maybe even move it onto the official Metrowerks website.

-Howard
The MSL C++ guy
Metrowerks