4 General principles [intro]

4.2 Structure of this document [intro.structure]

[lex] through [cpp] describe the C++ programming language.
That description includes detailed syntactic specifications in a form described in [syntax].
For convenience, [gram] repeats all such syntactic specifications.
[support] through [thread] and [depr] (the library clauses) describe the C++ standard library.
That description includes detailed descriptions of the entities and macros that constitute the library, in a form described in [library].
[implimits] recommends lower bounds on the capacity of conforming implementations.
[diff] summarizes the evolution of C++ since its first published description, and explains in detail the differences between C++ and C.
Certain features of C++ exist solely for compatibility purposes; [depr] describes those features.