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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fce663eaf40b52f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!meganewsservers.com!feeder2.on.meganewsservers.com!border1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 18:21:24 -0500 Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 19:21:24 -0400 From: "Robert I. Eachus" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Manifesto against Vector References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.147.90.114 X-Trace: sv3-YT6rc/0sm7neTJc9zW1ZgDveD0fGPuR92ZSdRnpjaaPrjH4lU2G/4lLRdyDIr0TPG+6ul+Ln7AASZxl!RYD/ANU585dm7+64Kg6bsWRmQRVHr7S7TovUfOHrknsHIQiqLdc/BnZ2n4mJ+A== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:296 Date: 2004-05-05T19:21:24-04:00 List-Id: Jeffrey Carter wrote: > While I agree that Vector is not the best name for this abstraction, I > have expressed my opinion and the reasons behind it to the ARG during > earlier discussions of AI-302-03, and the ARG chose Vector. The > discussion is over. I can live with it. Technically, it is not over. I think that this particular issue is a pimple on the rear of fly, but it is a good example of the differences in the roles of WG9 and the ARG. The ARG is a sub-group of WG9 tasked with finding solutions to language issues that arise. When the ARG has a solution that seems to deal with all the technical aspects of an issue, it is forwarded to WG9. In the case of the Ada0Y extensions, the approved changes will be submitted in a group to SC22, and then to ISO/IEC JTC1 for approval. Non-technical language issues are normally dealt with at the WG9 level. It is fairly common for the ARG to come up with a good technical solution, and for WG9 to refer it back to the ARG to find a different solution. In this case, I personally don't think that this is a big enough issue to merit that kind of attention. But I don't dictate to WG9 delegations. Note that WG9 delegations represent ISO member countries. So, for example, a name that was a swear word in, say, Polish would be the sort of issue WG9 would address, not the ARG. -- Robert I. Eachus "The terrorist enemy holds no territory, defends no population, is unconstrained by rules of warfare, and respects no law of morality. Such an enemy cannot be deterred, contained, appeased or negotiated with. It can only be destroyed--and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the business at hand." -- Dick Cheney