Re: Standard Library Interest?

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

Well, as an "end user" in good standing, I'd say it did affect me. I 
wanted portable source code I could take unchanged from one compiler to 
another and I couldn't get there. (Not initially, at least) So there was 
an impact. If I was maintaining code for two different compilers (not at 
all unheard of) I'd have to go through gyrations of configuration 
management to deal with it in some manner.

Its an issue that can safely be put to bed now, but the lesson ought to 
be out there for future similar circumstances. Not everybody's political 
needs are the same, so there need to be compromises.

MDC


Robert I. Eachus wrote:
> 
> That was the major effect of not including them in the standard, you had 
> to change the name in a with clause. (The function names and parameters, 
> as far as I can remember were identical.  Hmmm.  I think there were some 
> differences/discussions about the parameter names of the two parameter 
> form of Arctangent.  Not something that really affected users.)
> 


-- 
======================================================================
Marin David Condic
I work for: http://www.belcan.com/
My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm

Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g

     "All reformers, however strict their social conscience,
      live in houses just as big as they can pay for."

          --Logan Pearsall Smith
======================================================================