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From: Mitch.Bradley@ENG.SUN.COM
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Subject: ANS Forth
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Date: 28 May 91 16:55:31 GMT
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> My understanding is that there is a four-month "window" for comments.  Then,
> no further comments are accepted unless the dpANS is sent back to the TC for
> revision.  And this is not a sure thing; the TC is obligated to _respond_ to
> all comments, but only ANSI decides -- who knows how? -- if the document has
> to be sent back for changes.

This turns out not to be the case.  I was worried about this too, and I asked
Elizabeth for clarification, and I also asked Sun's ANSI representative for
confirmation.

A TC can take a document back for changes at any time.  It doesn't have to
be "sent back at ANSI's discretion".  In one recent case (SCSI I think), a
TC discovered a problem at the absolute last minute, when the document was
on the way to the printers for final printing.  They "pulled it off the truck"
and changed it.

> By their own definition, a "superior" argument is one which appeals to the
> whims of a majority of the TC -- and nothing else.

You call it "whim", I call it "judgement".  The committee members are people,
so both words probably have some merit.

Mitch.Bradley@Eng.Sun.COM