From 8549494738326066887 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,b2ee37ea6b4e52ab X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: Pete Becker Subject: Re: ISO vs ANSI C++ Date: 1999/07/11 Message-ID: <3787CF9B.B1053375@acm.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 500684228 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.128.201.83 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Approved: stephen.clamage@sun.com (comp.std.c++) References: <7m5mhs$ib0$1@gxsn.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@mediaone.net X-Trace: wbnws01.ne.mediaone.net 931647347 24.128.201.83 (Sat, 10 Jul 1999 18:55:47 EDT) Organization: Road Runner Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 18:55:47 EDT Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Originator: clamage@taumet Paul Baxter wrote: > > As I understand it, the C++ standard has been accepted by ISO. > > Is the SAME standard to be ratified by ANSI (or is this even needed?) My understanding is that it's not needed. > > I ask because of a few curious comments made at a recent meeting where some > programmers at a customers site believed that a > 'final' (for the next few years anyway) standard although agreed by one > organisation hadn't been agreed by 'others' and that further changes might > be likely. They're probably thinking of what happened with the C standard, which was created by ANSI and changed a bit by ISO. The C++ standard was developed under a new procedure, with both groups working together. This meant, for example, that formal votes had to be taken twice: once for ANSI members to advise our ISO representative on the US position on the issue, and a second time for the official ISO vote. > > They valued stability of the standard as paramount, and were trying to use > this against C++. They sound desparate. > Personally I'm happy with an ISO standard but didn't feel > I could refute their claims without some more specific knowledge. > > I'm somewhat confused and wish to know simply whether the new ISO standard > *IS* the current world-wide standard that (hopefully) compilers will strive > for, or are the posts going to be moved in the next year or so with a > slightly modified ANSI standard? It's official and worldwide. -- Pete Becker Dinkumware, Ltd. http://www.dinkumware.com [ 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://reality.sgi.com/austern_mti/std-c++/faq.html ]