Topic: base documents (was: i=i++ ? order of evaluation)
Author: vinoski@apollo.hp.com (Steve Vinoski)
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1993 23:28:42 GMT Raw View
In article <CGnFvz.Eny@microsoft.com> jimad@microsoft.com (Jim Adcock) writes:
>In article <rfgCGJ13K.n01@netcom.com> rfg@netcom.com (Ronald F. Guilmette) writes:
>|P.S. I am constantly amazed at the number of outstanding problems in the
>|current X3J16 working papers for which well-wordsmith'd solutions are
>|already readily available in the ANSI/ISO C standard...
>
>Agreed. Again, note that the ARM is only one of *two* base documents
>for the ANSI/ISO C++ standardization efforts. People who *only*
>have the ARM don't know the half of it. The ANSI/ISO C Standard is
>the other half.
There is sort of a third base document: the American National
Dictionary for Information Processing Systems, Information Prcoessing
Systems Technical Report ANSI X3/TR-1-82 (1982). As stated on page
1-3 of the 09/28/93 working paper, "terms not defined in this standard
are to be interpreted according to [the above named document]."
--steve
Steve Vinoski vinoski@apollo.hp.com (508)436-5904
Distributed Object Computing Program fax: (508)436-5122
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