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Re: -std's (was Re: v3 link failures analyzed)
Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au> writes:
| 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.
Agreed.
| I like Mike Stump's suggestion of using plain `-std'
| to mean the most recent properly supported ISO standard.
So it seems we're in complete agreement.
-- Gaby
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