Re: -std's (was Re: v3 link failures analyzed)

[Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot oz dot au>]

On 10-Jan-2001, Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> As for the name: -std exists to provide some regularity to names in this
> area, and another -std name is better than another irregular option -iso
> to add to the existing irregular -ansi, -pedantic and -traditional.

OK, you've convinced me that `-iso' is not a good idea.
But the `-ansi' option should be documented as deprecated.

I like Mike Stump's suggestion of using plain `-std'
to mean the most recent properly supported ISO standard.

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