Proposal

[Joseph S. Myers]

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