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-Thread: 103376,6399f50737c8a1c8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Annex I? Date: 31 Mar 2005 16:34:45 -0500 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <1112261489.654833.47450@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls4.std.com 1112304885 32663 192.74.137.71 (31 Mar 2005 21:34:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:34:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10196 Date: 2005-03-31T16:34:45-05:00 List-Id: "Mattias Lindblad" writes: > Hi, > > In IEEE 1003.5, even in the 1999 edition, there are some references to > Annex I of the LRM (for example in 3.3.17.2). What's IEEE 1003.5? >... I have noticed that there > is no such annex in the current revisions of the LRM, but the > references seem to map directly onto Annex J instead. > > I'm curious about why this annex has changed its name from I to J. I > can't find any references to this event. My best guess is that "I" was > to easily confused with "1". But I am not able to find a copy of the > standard where Annex I exists, so I can't see if there are any > differences in the content that would explain the name change. > > Is there anyone who knows the true story about this? As I recall, the ISO standard for standards forbids Annexes I and O, probably for the reason you guessed. There might have been a preliminary version with an Annex I, which would have been produced before I had read the ISO standard for standards and obeyed all the nitpicking rules and regulations -- I don't remember. But if so, nobody should be referring to such a preliminary, unapproved version. The Ada RM also has Annexes N and P, but not O. The ISO rules also forbid paragraph numbers. So we put paragraph numbers in the version that most folks look at -- but if you buy it from ISO, it will be sans paragraph numbers. - Bob