From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Joseph S. Myers" To: Zack Weinberg Cc: Subject: Re: Proposal Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 01:14:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <20010918221948.I12089@codesourcery.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00750.html On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Zack Weinberg wrote: > I'm not sure of this; would they be useful to normal users of GCC? > Standardization proposals tend to be written in standardese and > therefore are not suitable as end-user documentation. They're just as suitable as the standards themselves are - and the standards themselves *ought* to be being used for reference by every serious programmer in standardised languages. (Though this doesn't remove the use of existing tutorial material in the manual and of bodies of code with idiomatic uses of the extensions for users to read and learn from; nor do I claim that the optimal method for all users of *learning* C or C++ is to read ISO 9899 or ISO 14882.) Of course the proposals would include the rationale for the changes as well as the actual textual changes to the standard. -- Joseph S. Myers jsm28@cam.ac.uk