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[intro.structure]
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# 4 General principles [[intro]](./#intro)
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## 4.2 Structure of this document [intro.structure]
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[1](#1)
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[#](http://github.com/Eelis/draft/tree/9adde4bc1c62ec234483e63ea3b70a59724c745a/source/intro.tex#L1045)
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[[lex]](lex "5 Lexical conventions") through [[cpp]](cpp "15 Preprocessing directives") describe the C++ programming
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language[.](#1.sentence-1)
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That description includes detailed syntactic specifications in
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a form described in [[syntax]](syntax "4.3 Syntax notation")[.](#1.sentence-2)
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For convenience, [[gram]](gram "Annex A (informative) Grammar summary") repeats all such syntactic specifications[.](#1.sentence-3)
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[2](#2)
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[#](http://github.com/Eelis/draft/tree/9adde4bc1c62ec234483e63ea3b70a59724c745a/source/intro.tex#L1053)
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[[support]](support "17 Language support library") through [[exec]](exec "33 Execution control library") and [[depr]](depr "Annex D (normative) Compatibility features") (the [*library clauses*](#def:library_clauses "4.2 Structure of this document [intro.structure]")) describe the C++ standard library[.](#2.sentence-1)
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That description includes detailed descriptions of the
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entities and macros
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that constitute the library, in a form described in [[library]](library "16 Library introduction")[.](#2.sentence-2)
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[3](#3)
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[#](http://github.com/Eelis/draft/tree/9adde4bc1c62ec234483e63ea3b70a59724c745a/source/intro.tex#L1060)
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[[implimits]](implimits "Annex B (informative) Implementation quantities") recommends lower bounds on the capacity of conforming
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implementations[.](#3.sentence-1)
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[4](#4)
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[#](http://github.com/Eelis/draft/tree/9adde4bc1c62ec234483e63ea3b70a59724c745a/source/intro.tex#L1064)
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[[diff]](diff "Annex C (informative) Compatibility") summarizes the evolution of C++ since its first
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published description, and explains in detail the differences between
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C++ and C[.](#4.sentence-1)
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Certain features of C++ exist solely for compatibility
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purposes; [[depr]](depr "Annex D (normative) Compatibility features") describes those features[.](#4.sentence-2)
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