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From: faith!Rick_Sutcliffe@CS.SFU.CA (Rick Sutcliffe)
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Subject: Re:> Draft Standard
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Date: 11 Apr 91 14:43:00 GMT
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        Reply to:   RE>> Draft Standard
Re:
 > Has anyone any idea when the ISO standard for Modula-2 might become
 > final?

The next meeting of the ISO WG13 is in Tubingen, Germany in the
first week of July 1991.  Much of he draft is more or less final.  Major
things that remain include:
1) I/O library -- there are still difficulties reaching agreement on
fundamentals
2) termination and cleanup -- I think we are getting close
3) exceptions -- the list of what must be detected and the method
of handling needs work
4) inclusion of the type COMPLEX -- this seems to have been accepted
and only the size of the library appears to be at issue.
5) many small details.  If I have missed a major issue
in my haste, I am sure Randy Bush is listening and will add to this.
Rick Sutcliffe
Canadian Chair, WG13 (Modula-2)