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Subject: ANS FORTH TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
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Date: 6 Apr 91 13:11:03 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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Category 10,  Topic 2
Message 132       Fri Apr 05, 1991
D.RUFFER [Dennis]            at 21:08 EST
 
......NEWS FLASH......

X3J14 Central:

Of the three items out for mail ballot, 2 have been rejected and 1 has passed.
The ones that failed had to do with conditional compilation words (nobody
likes the names) and left paren.  The one that passed is for sending BASIS 15
on to the SPARC committee.

So, you can stop worrying about [IF] or whatever you want to call it and start
thinking about writting comments to ANSI.  Actually, there are a couple of
steps let before we have a dpANS.  The first happens if they get any no votes
from that mail ballot.  They've had enough to pass the resolution, but if any
no's are received they have the responsibility of resolving the issue(s) that
caused the no vote(s). This mostly means writting a whole bunch of words to
justify their position, but there is a tenative meeting scheduled for May 3rd
hosted by Mitch Bradly just in case they need it.

Assuming they can resolve the no votes (if they get any) quickly, they then
send the document to the ANS planning committee (SPARC) who then gets to
decide if they have sweated enough blood.  If they feel everything is in
order, they then send it to ANS and we enter the public review period.  Best
estimates put this at early June. The public review lasts for 4 months and
then, barring any irreconcilable differences, we'll have an ANS Forth standard
sometime around the 4th quarter.

Let's hope we can do it!

   {B-{)>   DaR
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