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    std::

    I've reading some posts in this forum, and always found this funny looking code: "std::" . What is it? I've read nothing about it in my C++ tutorial book (published 2003). I mean, wat does it do (it looks pointless to me...)? Where do i put it? etc. etc.
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    Read up on C++ namespaces.

    Your C++ book author probably was careless, or drafted the book too early.

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    i guess i was wrong, I just found something 'bout namspaces in the later secions. I was just wondering since none of the sample programs (I've seen sofar) used std::
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    std is the standard template library and :: is the scope resolution operator so basicly std::function() means the function is part of the std namespace.

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    The sample programs so far probably had
    using namespace std;
    at the top.
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    Correction
    std is the standard template library
    STL is the Stadard Template Library.

    std is the namespace where all c++ identifiers are defined. Namespaces are used to reduce name clashes among different libraries.
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