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Message 27        Fri Aug 31, 1990
D.RUFFER [Dennis]            at 13:32 EDT
 
From Elizabeth Rather, Chair, ANS X3J14 Technical Committee:

This is addressed to those who have been commenting extensively on our work on
UseNet and related boards.

Although Mitch Bradley has been doing a great job of answering your specific
comments (thanks, Mitch!), I do have a couple of personal (unofficial) remarks
on recently popular topics.

2. Control structures:  Wil Baden did a great job of spearheading our
compromise on this issue.  The upshot is that the ingredients (IF, BEGIN,
WHILE, etc.) can work independently, and we document how to use them in
combination to provide and satisfy conditional or unconditional forward or
backward branches.  POSTPONE allows you to compile references to these words
(or others) as you wish.  The complicated code you're all exchanging and
wondering how to make work seems unnecessarily arcane.  We accept an
obligation to support any kind (topology) of control structure, but not all
arbitrary custom syntactic variants.  Wil wrote a nice paper on this subject
which we'll include in the Rationale section of BASIS13.
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