BG> Anyone know how I can get hold of the official ANSI C++ documentation?
The *ISO* C++ Standard is available (although it is quite expensive) from all 
national standards bodies that are ISO members, such as BSI here in the U.K., 
DIN in Germany, Standards Australia, and ANSI in the United State.
Standards bodies support themselves by selling the standards that they make.  
This is why the standards are not available electronically.  It is simply too 
hard to police the copyright on electronic documents.  If someone offers you 
a copy of the ISO C++ Standard just for the cost of a download, then be aware 
that this is illegal and an incitement for you to commit theft.
Of course, a cheap way to get hold of the text of the C++ Standard would 
probably be to do what people do to get hold of a copy of the text of the C 
Standard cheaply: buy the relevant book by Herb Schildt and rip out all of 
the analysis pages (which are usually misleading if not downright wrong by 
all accounts).
I can give you more information about what BSI will sell you, if you want.
 ¯ JdeBP ®
 ¯ Member of the BSI C++ Panel, IST 5/-/21 ®
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