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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Three simple questions
Date: 2000/10/23
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dvdeug@x8b4e516e.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) writes:

> Then what does section 2.1 of the RM mean?

Not a whole lot.  ;-)  See AARM-2.1(1.b), for example.

2.1 does mean *something*, though.  For example, I interpret it to mean
that you (the compiler vendor) have to provide *some* way of
representing each of the 2**16 characters ISO-10646.  But it doesn't
have to agree with anybody else's way of representing those same
characters.  You could use this to make an arbitrarily useless compiler,
I suppose, if you really wanted to.

- Bob