30. Standard-Library Overview

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

– Roger Bacon

• Introduction

Standard-Library Facilities; Design Constraints; Description Style

• Headers

• Language Support

initializer_list Support; Range-for Support

• Error Handling

Exceptions; Assertions; system_error

• Advice

30.1. Introduction

The standard library is the set of components specified by the ISO C++ standard and shipped with identical behavior (modulo performance) by every C++ implementation. For portability and long-term maintainability, I strongly recommend using the standard library whenever feasible. Maybe you can design and implement a better alternative for your application, but:

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