From -233899768362687548 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,b0fc0305794e0486 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: vandevod@cs.rpi.edu (David Vandevoorde) Subject: Re: What Happened to the Sep96 ANSI C++ Draft? Date: 1996/10/02 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 186775089 references: x-original-date: 02 Oct 1996 17:12:47 -0400 organization: RPI Computer Science x-auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP comp.std.c++ newsgroups: comp.std.c++ originator: austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com >>>>> "MD" == Mike Duigou writes: MD> I've been watching this group religiously for the last couple of MD> weeks hoping to hear something about the ANSI C++ Draft which was MD> promised for September. The April 1995 Draft is rather obsolete, MD> and if it weren't electronic my copy would be rather MD> thumbworn. :-). Any sign of it down the pipe? [...] There were indeed high hopes that a second committee draft (CD) could be emitted after the July 1996 Stockholm meeting of the ISO+ANSI committees. However, some of the changes introduced at that meeting (e.g., a new keyword `export') were deemed too significant to consider the DWP stable enough for CD status. As a result, it was decided to wait at least until the November meeting before voting out CD2. There were also plans to use the inter-meeting period in such a way that CD2 would be available earlier than the usual 2 months or so after the meeting that votes it out. I do not know if these plans still exist; otherwise CD2 could be a New Year's present (in the Western calendar). Of course, it is also possible that the Hawaii meeting in November concludes that the DWP is still not in a good enough shape for CD2, which would cause additional slip. Daveed --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles: Try just posting with your newsreader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu comp.std.c++ FAQ: http://reality.sgi.com/austern/std-c++/faq.html Moderation policy: http://reality.sgi.com/austern/std-c++/policy.html Comments? mailto:std-c++-request@ncar.ucar.edu ]