On Jan 12, 2004, Heiko Joerg Schick <info@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 1. <iostream.h> is not part of standard C++. The 1998 C++ standard > uses <iostream> (no ".h") Actually, it is, but deprecated. Its effect is equivalent to #include <iostream> followed by using statements that bring in the declarations from iostream into the global namespace. > 2. Both <iostream> and <string> are in the "std" namespace. Strictly speaking, header files are not in namespaces. It's the declarations they introduce that are. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Happy GNU Year! oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist Professional serial bug killer