From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-65-14.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_50,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada 2022 Language Reference Manual to be Published by Springer Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2023 12:47:29 -0700 Organization: None to speak of Message-ID: <87zg51hlm6.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3c8eee7e9d631c89ab739ed57fa0d1c4"; logging-data="122816"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19e18h3d8R3qj8h2uazGnqW" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:krrTGzqBYQ9HjoosoJ41Prb/BFc= sha1:dklq2XC+Q/cAb54MpP9i5mBN12o= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:65318 List-Id: dirk@orka.cs.kuleuven.be. (Dirk Craeynest) writes: [...] > Yes, the introductory chapters in the ISO document are slightly > different from those in the RM on ada-auth.org, and there's no Annex on > "Obsolescent Features" nor a "Glossary" (that was removed in draft 35 > anyway). All this is due to specific requirements that ISO has for its > standards. There are more differences, such as the ISO document not > having any paragraph numbers as those are not allowed in ISO standards. [...] Is disallowing paragraph numbers a recent change? I have a copy of the 2011 ISO C standard, ISO/IEC 9899:2011 (E), and it definitely has paragraph numbers. (Which are extremely useful, BTW; it seems silly for ISO to disallow them.) -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com Will write code for food. void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */