thorinn@diku.dk (Lars Henrik Mathiesen) (02/24/91)
I posted this three days ago in com.std.internat, by mistake, under a silly title, so here it is again. domo@tsa.co.uk (Dominic Dunlop) writes: >the current edition (I'm told it's out) of ISO 9899 It's out; reference number "ISO/IEC 9899 : 1990 (E)", dated 1990-12-15. Typographically and contents-wise almost identical to the ANSI one --- but they ADDED 3 TO ALL THE CHAPTER NUMBERS (he screamed). It seems that ISO/IEC standards needs to have separate ``clauses'' on Scope, Normative references, Definitions and conventions, and Compliance; so the first four clause numbers cover four pages between them, and the next three (Environment, Language, and Library) are 172 pages. It seems a little silly. But I suppose the ISO/IEC style would rather have made the next level of the standard into chapters, giving a total of 28; less incongruous, maybe, but even more confusing when compared to the ANSI edition. -- Lars Mathiesen, DIKU, U of Copenhagen, Denmark [uunet!]mcsun!diku!thorinn Institute of Datalogy -- we're scientists, not engineers. thorinn@diku.dk