Throughout
this book, when referring to conformance to the ANSI/ISO C standard, I will
generally just say ‘
C.’
Only if it is necessary to distinguish between Standard C and older,
pre-Standard versions of C will I make the distinction.
At
this writing the ANSI/ISO C++ committee was
finished working on the language. Thus, I will use the term
Standard
C++
to refer to the standardized language. If I simply refer to C++ you should
assume I mean “Standard C++.”
Language
support
Your
compiler may not support all the features discussed in this book, especially if
you don’t have the newest version of your compiler. Implementing a
language like C++ is a Herculean task, and you can expect that the features
will appear in pieces rather than all at once. But if you attempt one of the
examples in the book and get a lot of errors from the compiler, it’s not
necessarily a bug in the code or the compiler – it may simply not be
implemented in your particular compiler yet.