C++ standards

[David Kastrup]

What C++ standard should we be able to ask for?  I think that at the
current point of time, C++11 should be reasonably fine for the asking.
That would have the advantage that we would have a few more STL
container types to choose from and some more functionality.  I think
that we should be able to retire std-vector.hh as well (which is
basically there for ensuring that there is a data () member function I
think).

It would also be slightly less frustrating to programmers used to living
on the edge of standards (not that C++11 would be anywhere near the edge
nowadays).

Would we need some autoconf tests?  Should we provide some --std=c++11
option or similar at least to gcc?

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David Kastrup