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From: brainerd@unmvax.unm.edu (Walt Brainerd)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Pointer examples and 8x
Summary: The review will be 4 months.
Keywords: Fortran Pointers, Oxymorons
Message-ID: <179@unmvax.unm.edu>
Date: 26 Jun 89 04:37:21 GMT
References: <638hallidayd@yvax.byu.edu> <12018@pur-ee.UUCP> <2766@elxsi.UUCP>
Organization: University of New Mexico at Albuquerque
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In article <2766@elxsi.UUCP>, corbett@beatnix.UUCP (Bob Corbett) writes:
> . . . I have heard that the next public
> review probably will last only two months. . . .

Just this week X3 voted to hold a four (4) month review (though the
usual procedure is that the second one is 2 months).  I am sure
someone will post the beginning dates and how to get a copy.  Yes
it does take a bit of time to understand what is there (be glad to come
tell you all about it).  Let's hope the copies from Global Engineering
(the distributor of the document last time) are legible and arrive
in a reasonable time (for the price, you should expect it).

There have been attempts to publish the draft by ACM, but ANSI says
that can't be done because they would not get their royalty from it!
Seems reasonable to make money selling standards, but not drafts.
If you agree, this is something else to comment on.