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by Forricide 1367 days ago
> It's kind of crazy how major compilers have been ignoring the standard for so long that people consider a standard compliant compiler to be weird and broken.

I had absolutely no idea this wasn't even supposed to be the case (although I was aware of the duplication in std::). Guess it makes sense that the standard would shy away from global namespace pollution - I suppose one of the compilers perhaps did this for long enough that the others ended up duplicating it to increase code compatibility?