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+This is the "classlib" distributed with pre-open-source versions of
+AnaGram.
+
+It is old and not very well designed. It is still here, and sort of
+being maintained, because (1) some of the examples use it, and (2)
+somebody out there might even be using it.
+
+It should be considered deprecated. The examples will be migrated away
+from it over time; anyone using it in their own code should move to
+something else - whether AnaGram's own AGCLIB1 or the STL or whatever.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Changes to oldclasslib since the AG 2.01 release:
+
+- Updated the syntax for friend template functions for the current (or
+at least recent) dialect of 'standard' C++.
+
+- Added const qualifications in various places to allow use of string
+constants. In current C++ string constants have type "const char *";
+that was not the case when this code was written.
+
+- Added explicit calls to base class constructors even when they take
+no arguments; gcc 3.3 whines if you don't have these.
+
+- Removed the behavior where you can cast a stack<> to T* or a
+character_sink to char* to fetch the topmost element. Now you must
+call the top() method instead. Apparently the C++ standard says that
+having such a cast operator and also having operator[] is ambiguous,
+because you can convert the object to a pointer and apply [] to that
+as well as using the provided operator[] directly. This seems stupid
+bordering on insane, but when compilers start citing the standard at
+you there isn't much choice but to go along.