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
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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

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