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Subject: X3J14 Holding Pattern Here
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Date: 6 May 91 00:39:07 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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Category 10,  Topic 12
Message 61        Sun May 05, 1991
B.RODRIGUEZ2 [Brad]          at 10:09 EDT
 
> So tell us which sections are vague and fuzzy so we can fix them!

I did, Mitch, and I got yelled at for my efforts.  In Detroit I stated quite
clearly that I did not understand the meaning of the Locals section; both the
intent and the implementation were unclear to me.  This led to a somewhat
emotional outburst on the part of the author of that section (an intelligent
guy whose work I greatly respect, but who didn't help matters in this
instance).

The only positive response I got was from you personally, Mitch, when you
offered to send me a copy of your Locals implementation.  I declined because
to me it is more important to establish if compatible implementations can be
developed based _just_on_the_ _information_in_the_BASIS_.  Reading your
implementation would be very helpful, but I'd have no way of separating your
assumptions from the actual requirements of BASIS.

I have been as specific as I can be in my complaints and suggestions.  I would
like to think that if several reasonably- experienced Forthers are saying that
they're confused by the standard, the TC would view this as symptomatic of a
problem in the BASIS, and not a problem in the objectors.

Brad Rodriguez        | brad%candice@maccs.uucp      (God willing)
 B.RODRIGUEZ2 on GEnie | brad%candice@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
 "Shoes for industry!" | bradford@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca  (archaic)

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