Hello,
I'm an advanced programmer, reading "Ivor Horton's Beginning Visual C++ 2005" and I didn't understand the concept of the std.

If I understand well: The standard library sits inside the IDE and owns funcs/classes/etc names (like cout) but just "points" to the iostream and other header files?
This means that std exist without declaring iostream, but, for instance cout wont work till declaration?
or the std is an outcome of iostream?

Thanks..