nfs@Princeton.EDU (Norbert Schlenker) (07/13/90)
From: Norbert Schlenker <nfs@Princeton.EDU>
In the mail today, I received a short excerpt out of draft 9 of the
P1003.2 (proposed) standard. Taking a look at a random page, I came
across the description of fold(1). It's hardly an important utility,
but it is at least non-trivial. Thinking a little about how it
could be implemented, I quickly decided that it cannot be done
correctly on machines with finite amounts of memory, because of an
error in specification (details on request).
As I don't have the entire draft, I don't know how to register an
objection -- or at least a request for clarification. Could someone
tell me how I can do this?
Norbert
P.S. I hope the fold specification is not indicative of the rest of
the standard.
Volume-Number: Volume 20, Number 127