I think - just do it. The ozinferno "standard" is defined by the implementation - plus whatever documentation that i get time to write. This does not solve larger issues (like standards for cell phones) but it works for me. I didn't go to a meeting to add function pointers, i just did it.
brucee On 1/19/06, David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 1/18/06, Bruce Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > how about someone (or two) experts write the standard? > > worked for K&R. > > > What's worse is standards with no reference implementation. Both C an C99 > seem to have suffered from this disease. > > C++ hasn't been implemented as 1998's spec has erm... specified to my > knowledge without any bugs. [EDG comes closest and Intel and other compiler > vendors are just using their front end, and paying for it as a result]. > > C99 has implementation issues like tgmath.h that are actually impossible to > implement in just C99. You absolutely will need compiler extensions to > implement that header properly. > > Perhaps the best way to specify a standard is to define it in a reference > implementation then talk about it. Not specify on paper and dream about how > it should work then find out how far off you were when you start trying to > prototype it. > > Dave > > > brucee > > > > On 1/19/06, Wes Kussmaul < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Paul Lalonde wrote: > > > > > > > Standards are for when there are too many cooks in the kitchen. By > > > > their very nature they have to compromise. > > > > Give me the work of a standards committee before the the work of a > > > > single idiot; but most of all give me the work of a brilliant expert > > > > before that of the committee. And for God's sake, please don't turn my > > > > expert into an idiot by throwing him onto a committee! > > > > > > How about all standards committees advising one individual, the > > > standards czar, your brilliant expert, with a background in law and > > > social science as well as technology, who is able to apply duly > > > constituted public authority to a standard. He/she cannot have any > > > alliances with anyone but the ITU. > > > > > > -- > > > Wes Kussmaul > > > CIO > > > The Village Group > > > 738 Main Street > > > Waltham, MA 02451 > > > > > > 781-647-7178 > > > > > > > > > My uncle likes to say that the world's biggest troubles started when the > serpent said, "Try this fruit, and by the way if a bunch of people > collectively calling themselves Arthur Andersen signs something it's the > same as if a person named Arthur Andersen signed it." I don't get the > serpent and fruit part. Must be some Swiss mythology thing. He can be a bit > obscure. > > > > > > P.K. Iggy > > > _How I Like Fixed The Internet_ > > > (Tales from the Great Infodepression of 2009 > > > and the prosperity that followed) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
