In article <rfgCu8ED6.25F@netcom.com> rfg@netcom.com (Ronald F. Guilmette) writes:
>While C and C++ do provide support for multidimensional arrays, Jeff Kuehn
>and many others do indeed have a legitimate gripe about the lack of con-
>formant array support in these languages.  (And this concern has already
>been addressed... at least for C... to a great degree by the work of the
>Numerical C Extensions Group, now a part of the X3J11 C standardization
>committee.  It remains to be seen whether or not that work, which has been
>approved by X3J11 for inclusion into a forthcoming non-normative technical
>report, will or will not be likewise embraced by the X3J16 and/or WG21 C++
>standardization committees.

     Hi, Ron.  If discussions are getting to the point where people
here might become interested in the NCEG work, it may be useful if I
enumerate the planned contents of the X3J11 technical report, slated
for approximately December of this year.  There will be eight items if
the plans are not changed later.

 Complex Type
 Compound Literals (constants of arbitrary abstract type)
 Data Parallel C Extensions (similar to C*, but less, and more)
 Designated Initializers (e.g. sparse array initializers)
 Extended Integer Types (like int64_t)
 Floating Point C Extensions (Apple adopted a draft of these)
 Restricted Pointers (aliasing)
 Variable Length Arrays (including conformant arrays)

     David Keaton
     dmk@dmk.com