Accredited Standards Committee*
X3, Information Technology

NEWS RELEASE
Doc No.: PR/95-035
Reply To: Deborah J. Donovan (ddonovan@itic.nw.dc.us)

X3 Announces the Public Comment Period of ISO/IEC CD 14882 for Initial
Public Review, Information technology - Programming languages, their
environments and system software interfaces - Programming Language C++

Washington, DC, May 12, 1995 -- Accredited Standards Committee X3,
Information Technology announces the two-month public review of
ISO/IEC CD 14882.  Although the formal public review extends from May 26,
1995 to July 25, 1995, the U.S. TAG (X3J16) will accept comments immediately.

This International Standard specifies requirements for processors of the
C++ programming language.  As the first such requirement is that they
implement the language, this International Standard also defines C++.
Other requirements and relaxations of the first requirement appear at
various places within the Standard.  C++ is a general programming language
based on the C programming language as described in ISO/IEC 9899:1990,
Programming Language C.  In addition to the facilities provided by C, C++
provides additional data types, classes, templates, exceptions, inline
functions, operator overloading, function name overloading, references,
free store management operators, function argument checking and type
conversion, and additional library facilities.

Note:  This committee draft is being processed simultaneously as an
American National Standard and an International Standard.

Public Review Comment Instructions:

The public review period closes on July 25, 1995.  However the U.S. TAG
for SC22/WG21 (X3J16) is meeting on July 9, 1995.  In order for comments
to affect the position of the U.S. TAG, they must be received prior to
July 6, 1995.  Therefore, all commentors are urged to submit comments as
early in the public review period as possible.  Public review comments
received after July 6, 1995 will be addressed and considered for future
balloting and/or revision.

To facilitate speedy consideration of comments, please submit them via
email (x3sec@itic.nw.dc.us).  Please note, however, that an original
hardcopy with signature is *required* before the comment will be
registered as a formal public review comment.

Submit all comments to:  X3 Secretariat, Attn.:  Deborah J. Donovan, 1250
Eye St. NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC  20005.  Send a copy to :  ANSI,
Attn.: BSR Center, 11 West 42nd St., New York, NY  10036.

A call is also issued at this time to the U.S. technical community for
information regarding any known patent or like rights that may be
required for compliance to this proposed ISO/IEC standards.  The
applicable patent policy is contained in Annex A of the ISO/IEC Directives,
Part 2 or may be obtained from the JTC1 TAG Administrator at the address
noted below.

The document is available for $65.00 (including shipping, handling, & tax)
from: X3 Secretariat, Attn.: Lynn Barra (x3sec@itic.nw.dc.us), 1250 Eye
Street, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20005, (202) 626-5738.  The document
is also available for $50.00 (plus shipping, handling, & tax) from:
American National Standards Institute, 11 W. 42nd St., New York, NY
10036, (212) 642-4900
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