Hello,

sorry if this is a silly question for you, but I started reading
this group several weeks ago, and I'm a bit confused about the
name. I didn't see a faq or anything similar, so I'm asking now.
What's the "std" standing for, and what's supposed to be posted
here?

  Thanx

    Herbert
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In article <1994Feb23.082202.23068@isa.de>, neugebau@isa.de (Herbert Neugebauer) writes:
> Hello,
>
> sorry if this is a silly question for you, but I started reading
> this group several weeks ago, and I'm a bit confused about the
> name. I didn't see a faq or anything similar, so I'm asking now.
> What's the "std" standing for, and what's supposed to be posted
> here?
>
>   Thanx
>

A perfectly sensible question, there is no FAQ for this group, as the ANSI/ISO
standard is the FAQ. All discussions on this group is about discrepancies
and details on the standard, or sophisticated questions about the standard.

What is needed is a regular posting saying that, and saying where
to buy the standard etc, and the ftp site for the rationale.


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Douglas

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In article <1994Feb23.082202.23068@isa.de> neugebau@isa.de (Herbert Neugebauer) writes:
>sorry if this is a silly question for you, but I started reading
>this group several weeks ago, and I'm a bit confused about the
>name. I didn't see a faq or anything similar, so I'm asking now.
>What's the "std" standing for, and what's supposed to be posted
>here?

"std" means "standard"; thus the comp.std.* newsgroups are about
standards for the named languages: in practice, for C and C++ it is the
ANSI/ISO standards.

There is no FAQ on comp.std.c; see comp.lang.c for an FAQ list.  (See my
.sig line if you don't know how to retrieve FAQ lists.)

As a general rule it is not a good idea to crosspost an article to C and
C++ newsgroups.  The answers to a given question are frequently
different.  People who read the question tend to answer for the
newsgroup in which the read it, without noticing the crosspost.  But the
follow-up is posted to both groups, which leads to a merry chain of "yes
it is." "No it isn't."  For an example see the recent thread on whether
a variable declared const was known to the preprocessor.  The answer is
definitely No for C, and appears to be Yes for C++.  But in reading all
the follow-ups we were never quite sure which language each writer was
talking about.

Therefore--followups directed to comp.std.c.
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