Re: Ada Core Technologies announces GNATCOM

[Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com>]

Larry Kilgallen wrote:
>...
> I try to keep up with this newsgroup, and I have not heard anything
> about any current official venue for creating a next generation of
> the standard.
> 
> Conventional wisdom is that when a new generation of the standard
> is created, those doing so should look first to widely implemented
> add-ons to the current standard.

The Ada Rapporteur Group (ARG) of Working Group 9 (WG9) of SC-22
of ... of ISO is looking at individual amendments to the
Ada standard.  There is a conscious desire among most of us *not*
to create a new "generation" of the standard, but rather to periodically
release an amendment that captures the consensus thinking on critical
enhancements to the standard.  

In addition, we are actively working on 
a "corrigendum" document, which is an official update
to the standard for fixing bugs, as opposed to introducing enhancements,
in the Ada reference manual.  The corrigendum should be out within a year
or so, though most vendors will support the "fixes" sooner than that
(many already do).  The schedule for any amendments remains TBD.

The address "ada-comment@acm.org" is the official place to
send comments on the Ada standard.  The format for such comments
is given in the reference manual.  (Note the new address!)

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