From rinehuls@access.digex.net Tue Dec 30 00:25:55 1997 Received: from access1.digex.net (qlrhmEbBUV1EY@access1.digex.net [205.197.245.192]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id AAA14234 for ; Tue, 30 Dec 1997 00:25:50 +0100 Received: from localhost (rinehuls@localhost) by access1.digex.net (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id SAA09017 for ; Mon, 29 Dec 1997 18:25:47 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 18:25:47 -0500 (EST) From: "william c. rinehuls" To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk Subject: SC22 N2640 - Comments Disposition on DIS 13813 - Ada Generic Packages In-Reply-To: <971229101641.24724@mail04.mitre.org.0> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII _________________ beginning of title page _____________________________ ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces Secretariat: U.S.A. (ANSI) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N2640 TITLE: Disposition of Comments Report for ISO/IEC DIS 13813 - Information technology - Programming languages - Generic Packages of Real and Complex Type Declarations and Basic Operations for Ada (Using Vector and Matrix Types) DATE ASSIGNED: 1997-12-30 SOURCE: Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: Disposition of Comments Report PROJECT NUMBER: JTC 1.22.10.04 STATUS: N/A ACTION IDENTIFIER: FYI DUE DATE: N/A DISTRIBUTION: Text CROSS REFERENCE: SC22 N2580 DISTRIBUTION FORM: Def Address reply to: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Secretariat William C. Rinehuls 8457 Rushing Creek Court Springfield, VA 22153 USA Telephone: +1 (703) 912-9680 Fax: +1 (703) 912-2973 email: rinehuls@access.digex.net ________________ end of title page; beginning of report __________________ Disposition of Comments Report for ISO/IEC DIS 13813 Information technology - Programming languages - Generic Packages of Real and Complex Type Declarations and Basic Operations for Ada (Using Vector and Matrix Type) Japan Comments on ISO/IEC DIS 13813: 1) In several sections (for example, 13.4 and 15.2), Clause 12 is referred to for the treatment of overflow conditions. However, overflow handling is defined in Clause 10, not 12. The project editor concurs with this comment; incorrect reference labeling led to this systemic erratum. References to Clause 12 have been replaced, where appropriate, by references to Clause 10 in sections 13.4, 15.2, 15.5, 16.3, 16.4, 16.8 and 16.9. 2) In Clause 2, International Standards are referred to as ISO xxxxx. We suspect that this is not correct. They should be changed to ISO/IEC xxxxx. See the references section of DIS 13814. The project editor concurs with this comment; all normative references to ISO standards in Clause 2 of DIS 13813 have been modified to begin with ISO/IEC. 3) In the main text of the Standard, other International Standards are referred to as ISO xxxxx:yyyy including the established year. This seems inadequate and conflicting to the first paragraph of Clause 2. "yyyy" part should be dropped. ISO xxxxx should be changed to ISO/IEC xxxxx. This comment requests the adoption of two distinct changes: (1) elimination of the year of standardization or revision from all references to ISO standards in the main text of the draft standard, and (2) the modification of these same references to begin with ISO/IEC instead of ISO. I will discuss the two requested changes separately. (1) The project editor concurs with the request to drop the established year from references to ISO standards, insofar as it applies to the normative text of DIS 13813. Hence, all references to ISO standards in the normative text of DIS 13813 omit the year of standardization or revision, while references in the informative text of DIS 13813 include it when a distinction must be made between two editions of the same standard. The informative text includes Annexes F, G and H, and notes (labeled as such) in the normative sections of the draft standard. (2) The project editor agrees that all references to ISO standards in this document should be changed to begin with ISO/IEC. This change has been made in the normative and informative text of DIS 13813. France Comments on ISO/IEC DIS 13813: 1) Change the French title. The project editor agrees that the French title should be modified as suggested. The project editor cannot implement this change since the project editor is not responsible for the translation of the DIS 13813 title into other languages. However, the project editor does hereby recommend that ISO/IEC adopt the title suggested in this comment as the French title for DIS 13813. ISO Comments on ISO/IEC DIS 13813: 1) Remove "most recent" from the second sentence of the first paragraph of Clause 2, and move the normative reference to ISO 8652:1987 from Clause 2 to Annex H since the 1987 edition is not "publicly available" as it is no longer in print. The project editor agrees that the suggested changes should be made and has implemented the corresponding modifications in DIS 13813. The reference to ISO 8652:1987 was removed from Clause 2 in response to a Japanese comment. 2) All of the normative references to ISO standards in Clause 2 are incorrectly specified. ISO should be changed to ISO/IEC, "Information Technology " should be inserted prior to "Programming Languages" and a period should be added at the end of each of the titles. The project editor concurs with this comment and the corresponding modifications have been made in DIS 13813. ISO was changed to ISO/IEC in response to a Japanese comment. 3) The normative reference to ISO 13814 in Clause 2 should not include the year of publication since it is still a DIS and has not yet been published. The project editor concurs with this comment. The year of publication was removed from all of the normative references to ISO/IEC standards in Clause 2 in response to a Japanese comment. 4) The informative references to ISO/IEC standards in Annex H are incorrectly specified. "Information Technology " should be inserted prior to "Programming Languages" in each of the titles, and each of the titles should be italicized. The project editor concurs with this comment and the corresponding> modifications have been made in DIS 13813. ____________________ end of SC22 N2640 _______________________________