From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,45d66c9c5017fc7d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,5f529c91be2ac930 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 11232c,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-03 10:51:49 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!hammer.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!rwcrnsc54.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3E63A4A5.5030603@attbi.com> From: "Robert I. Eachus" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,misc.misc,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: 64 bit addressing and OOP References: <3E593457.CA43516E@adaworks.com> <3E594650.E09A986D@adaworks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.62.164.137 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: rwcrnsc54 1046717509 24.62.164.137 (Mon, 03 Mar 2003 18:51:49 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 18:51:49 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 18:51:49 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.java.advocacy:59532 comp.object:58858 misc.misc:12288 comp.lang.ada:34836 Date: 2003-03-03T18:51:49+00:00 List-Id: "Randy Brukardt" wrote: >Probably. See AI-285. (http://www.ada-auth.org/ais.html). Kent Paul Dolan wrote: > ??? That link doesn't go to anything obviously pertinent, just the top > of some huge and not pellucidly navigable database even whose > component parts are confusingly labeled. > > Do you have a direct link or is what you reference really on that page > somewhere? http://www.ada-auth.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/AIs/AI-00285.TXT?rev=1.6 Randy does an excellent job maintaining that database, and may consider your complaint insulting. On the other hand, he may figure that anyone capable of reading the AIs finds navigating the database trivial. This draft of AI-285 is a good example. You need a working knowledge of several ISO standards and the ISO organization, and an expert's knowledge of the Ada standard to make much sense out of the discussion. To quote just the issue, not the proposed solution: SC22 directed its working groups to provide support for the ISO/IEC 10646 character set: "JTC 1/SC 22 believes that programming languages should offer the appropriate support for ISO/IEC 10646, and the Unicode character set where appropriate." Moreover, the working draft of ISO/IEC 10646:2003 makes use of planes other than the BMP.