A really bad idea.

[Andrew Koenig]

Simon> You might be surprised what you would find in the C++ standard
Simon> library...

Simon> Yeah there's plenty of nice things in the STL, but it's a
Simon> library, not part of the language.

The distinction isn't particularly important.  As with C, every
conforming implementation is required to implement the library, it is
impossible to write a useful, standard-conforming program without
using the library.

-- 
Andrew Koenig, ark at research.att.com, http://www.research.att.com/info/ark