Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!samsung!ginosko!uunet!mcsun!sunic!tut!tukki!sakkinen From: sakkinen@tukki.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal Subject: Re: Extended Pascal standard Message-ID: <1865@tukki.jyu.fi> Date: 30 Oct 89 11:22:17 GMT References: <467@e-street.Morgan.COM> <41232@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <1845@tukki.jyu.fi> <20438@mimsy.umd.edu> Reply-To: sakkinen@jytko.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen) SAKKINEN@FINJYU.bitnet (alternative) Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Lines: 33 In article <20438@mimsy.umd.edu> jds@mimsy.umd.edu (James da Silva) writes: >In article <1845@tukki.jyu.fi> sakkinen@jytko.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen) >SAKKINEN@FINJYU.bitnet (alternative) writes: >> >>The newest "Working Draft : Programming Language Extended Pascal" >>is dated August 18, 1989 and has xiv + 241 pages, so it _is_ extended. > >Do you (or anyone) have a summary of what has changed since the June 29, >1988 Draft? Presumably they are at the point where they are just doing >editorial cleanups, not major changes to the semantics? Your assumption is probably not far from the truth, but let's hope some committee member gives a better answer. Even the compact list of new features added to the 1983 ANSI/IEEE standard takes only 4 pages in the Foreword of the new draft. Somebody has asked me by e-mail where one can get the draft. In the USA, you could probably write to: ANSI X3 Secretariat c/o CBEMA 311 First Street, N.W., Suite 500 Washington, DC 20001-2178 Be prepared to pay for it. In other countries, the place to start asking is the national standards organisation. That's where I got my copy of the 1988 draft. (At least that one was co-published by the British Standards Institution). Markku Sakkinen Department of Computer Science University of Jyvaskyla (a's with umlauts) Seminaarinkatu 15 SF-40100 Jyvaskyla (umlauts again) Finland