Hi,

I am looking for the differences between the following ansi/iso C++
standards:
X3J16/92-00091 and
X3J16/95-00087

Can somebody help me, please?

Thanks in advance,

Wai Ho



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Wai Ho Chung <chung@twente.crosswinds.net> writes:

>I am looking for the differences between the following ansi/iso C++
>standards:
>X3J16/92-00091 and
>X3J16/95-00087

First, there are no standards of any kind with those numbers.
There is not yet a C++ standard, although the voting on the Final
Draft International Standard concludes this coming week.

During the course of its work, the C++ committee issued 3 times
per year a "working paper" representing the then-current state
of the document. Such working papers are only for internal
committee use. They are drafts in the sense that any writer
produces interim drafts of a work in progress that are not
intended to be seen by the general public.

Two versions of the working paper, called Committee Drafts, were
been issued for public comment. The first was in April 1995, and
had document number X3J16/95-0091. The second was in December
1996, and had document number X3J16/96-0219.

The "X2J16" is the old form of the ANSI C++ Committee's name
(the new form is just "J16"). The first two digits after
the "/" are the year in which a document was distribted to
committee members. The last four digits are a serial number for
documents issued during that year. The careful reader will notice
that this numbering scheme is not Y2K compiliant. :-)

All of these documents say on their cover that they are not
not standards; are known to be incorrect, incomplete,
and inconsistent; and are subject to change without notice.

The document numbers you mention don't correspond to either
of those Committee Drafts, so they can be only internal
committee documents, and have no special status of any kind.

For more about the status of the C++ Standard, see the FAQ
for this newsgroup.

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