Subject: N 3901-Summary of Voting on SC 22 N 3869, Letter Ballot for Draft Technical Corrigendum 1 to ISO/IEC 1989: 2002, Programming languages: CO BOL

From: Sally Seitz <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 09:43:40 -0400

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22
Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces
Secretariat:  U.S.A.  (ANSI) 

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N3901

TITLE:
Summary of Voting on SC 22 N 3869, Letter Ballot for Draft Technical
Corrigendum 1 to ISO/IEC 1989: 2002, Programming languages: COBOL

DATE ASSIGNED:
2005-05-20

SOURCE:
SC 22 Secretariat 

BACKWARD POINTER:
SC 22 N 3869 

DOCUMENT TYPE:
Summary of Voting 

PROJECT NUMBER:
22.01-01

STATUS:
WG 4 is instructed to take the comments received into consideration and
inform the Secretariat of any changes to the document so that it can be sent
to ITTF for the publication of a Technical Corrigendum.

ACTION IDENTIFIER:
FYI

DUE DATE:
N/A 

DISTRIBUTION:
Text 

CROSS REFERENCE:
N3869

DISTRIBUTION FORM:
Def 

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ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Secretariat
Sally Seitz
ANSI
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                      SUMMARY OF VOTING ON 

Letter Ballot:          SC22 N3869
Circulated by:               JTC 1/SC22
Circulation Date:            2005-02-07
Closing Date:                2005-05-07
SUBJECT:  Summary of Voting on SC 22 N 3869, Letter Ballot for Draft
Technical Corrigendum        to ISO/IEC 1989:2002, Programming languages:
COBOL

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The following responses have been received on the subject of approval: 

"P" Members supporting approval without comment                   
9  (China, Denmark, Finland, Republic of Korea, Netherlands, Romania,
Russian Federation, United Kingdom, United States)

"O" Members supporting approval without comment

"P" Members supporting approval with comments              
1 (Japan)

"P" Members not supporting approval       
- 

"P" Members abstaining                    
3 (Canada, France, Switzerland)

"P" Members not voting 

8 (Belgium, Czech Republic, Egypt, Germany, Italy, DPR of Korea, Slovenia,
Ukraine)

National Body Comments:

Japan

1.  Between item 3 and item 4

We should make the following change as well as item 3.  

The RoR1 (SC 22/WG 4 N 0227) suggests this change in Solution 3 of DR-10.

  3a. Page 166, 9.3.13, Parameterized Interfaces, third paragraph,

  first sentence, change in part to read:

    "When an interface is specified as the parameterized interface in 

     an EXPANDS phrase in the REPOSITORY paragraph, a new interface

     ..."   [DR-10]

2. Item 9

The following text (added by item 9 of DTC) is not understandable.

Especially, it is not clear that "of type type-name" references the type
identified by the data-name of the entry described with the TYPEDEF clause.

  "2) Neither the description of the subject of the entry nor the 

   description of any data item subordinate to the subject of the 

   entry shall directly or indirectly describe a data item of type 

   type-name."   [DR-17]

We propose to reword the newly added syntax rule for the TYPEDEF clause with
the following text, which is similar to the syntax rule 4 for the SAME AS
clause.

  "2) The description of the subject of the entry, including its 

   subordinate items, shall not contain a TYPE clause that directly 

   or indirectly references this type definition."

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Sally Seitz

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ANSI

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