From -5678563180900895799 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,40bc29384a77c552 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-09 12:37:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!212.74.64.35!colt.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Edward Diener" Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Messages facet and wide character filename Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 19:27:06 GMT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: References: <3caa1ba0$0$9888$4c41069e@reader1.ash.ops.us.uu.net> <3cb07ec7$1@news1.homechoice.co.uk> <3cb19462$0$11204$4c41069e@reader1.ash.ops.us.uu.net> <3CB239B4.E41D0B98@acm.org> <_yts8.1524$CA6.117218@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net> <3CB2D90B.1CC25054@wizard.net> X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 1018380431 mail2news:29640 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!mulga.cs.mu.oz.au X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 10:26:05 PDT Lines: 44 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:10487 "James Kuyper Jr." wrote in message news:3CB2D90B.1CC25054@wizard.net... > Edward Diener wrote: > > > > "Pete Becker" wrote in message > > news:3CB239B4.E41D0B98@acm.org... > > > Edward Diener wrote: > > > > > > > > I tossed out an idea. I can not attend meetings. Please specify the path > > by > > > > which I can make a formal proposal. > > > > > > > > > > The first step is to implement what you propose, and get some experience > > > using it. That will often make a formal proposal moot. > > > > > > > I am not a compiler writer. Nor can I implement a change to the standard > > library in most non-trivial cases. Could you please be more specific in what > > you mean ? > > The Free Software Foundation provides an existing > implementation of C++, with full source code, which you're free to > modify in accordance with the very liberal conditions of their > "copyleft" agreement. I won't claim it's easy to figure out how it > works, or easy to modify, but the simple existence of such a thing > drastically lowers the barriers to innovation. > I don't underestimate the value of having a free C++ compiler with open source code but it is a daunting task for even a good C++ programmer such as myself to attempt to change the compiler in order to test out a new language feature. Nonetheless, thanks for pointing out this potential avenue. --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.jamesd.demon.co.uk/csc/faq.html ]