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<h1>More Information</h1>
<h2>Boost Policies</h2>
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<p><b><a href="discussion_policy.htm">Mailing List Discussion Policy.</a></b>&nbsp;
What's acceptable and what isn't.</p>
<p><b><a href="lib_guide.htm">Library Requirements and Guidelines</a></b>.&nbsp;
Basic standards for those preparing a submission.</p>
<p><a href="test_policy.htm"><b>Test Policy and Protocols</b></a>.&nbsp; How
testing works at Boost.</p>
<p><a href="submission_process.htm"><b>Library Submission Process</b></a>.&nbsp;
How to submit a library to Boost.</p>
<p><b><a href="formal_review_process.htm">Library Formal Review Process</a></b>.
Including how to submit a review comment.</p>
<p><b><a href="header.htm">Header Policy</a></b>.&nbsp; Headers are where a
library contacts its users, so programming practices are particularly
important.</p>
<p><b><a href="imp_vars.htm">Implementation Variations</a></b>.&nbsp;
Sometimes one size fits all, sometimes it doesn't.&nbsp; This page deals with
the trade-offs.</p>
<p><b><a href="library_reuse.htm">Library Reuse</a></b>.&nbsp; Should Boost
libraries use other boost libraries?&nbsp; What about the C++ Standard
Library?&nbsp; It's another trade-off.</p>
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<p> <a href="../status/compiler_status.html"><b>Compiler Status</b></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
Describes what
library works with which compiler.</p>
<p> <a href="regression.html"><b>Internal Regression Test Suite</b></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
Describes the tool for generating the compiler status tables
<p> <a href="../libs/hdr_depend.html"><b>Header Dependencies</b></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
Describes what
other headers each boost header includes.</p>
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<h2>Articles and Papers</h2>
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<p><b><a href="count_bdy.htm">Counted Body Techniques</a></b> by <a href="../people/kevlin_henney.htm">Kevlin
Henney</a> is must reading for those interested in reference counting, a
widely used object management idiom.&nbsp; Originally published in <a href="http://www.accu.org/c++sig/public/Overload.html">Overload</a>
magazine.</p>
<p><b><a href="generic_programming.html">Generic Programming Techniques</a></b>
by <a href="../people/dave_abrahams.htm">David Abrahams</a> describes some of
the techniques used in Boost libraries.</p>
<p><b><a href="feature_model_diagrams.htm">Feature Model Diagrams in text and
HTML</a></b> describes how to represent feature model diagrams in text form.</p>
<p><b><a href="borland_cpp.html">Portability Hints: Borland C++ 5.5.1</a></b>
describes Borland C++ portability issues, with suggested workarounds.</p>
<p><a href="microsoft_vcpp.html"><b>Portability Hints: Microsoft VC++ 6.0 SP4</b></a>
describes Microsoft C++ portability issues, with suggested workarounds.</p>
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<h2>Links</h2>
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<p>The C++ Standard (ISO/IEC 14882) is available online as a PDF file from the
<a href="http://www.ansi.org">ANSI</a> (American National Standards Institute)
Electronic Standards Store.&nbsp; The price is $US 18.00. The document is
certainly not a tutorial, but is interesting to those who care about the
precise specification of the language and the standard library.</p>
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