[Patch] My proposal for _Alloc_traits-free rope

[Benjamin Kosnik]

> "... And if you find it too much of a nuisance, I can just go ahead 
>with it."
>
>Indeed, turned out to be a nuisance ;), not only due to the use of 4 
>additional
>allocators, but also because of many static members in the implementation.
>
>The below is what I have ready, it works (make check + a few simple 
>tests from
>the SGI STL site), seems to me quite clean, but I'm not sure if it's the 
>best
>we can do, honestly.

Matt?

>Well, perhaps, 'rope' isn't really used that much these days and we had 
>better
>spending our time elsewhere...

I wonder about this too. It seems to be the single-biggest user of
deprecated bits. Should we just kill it?

-benjamin