From rinehuls@access.digex.net Fri May 15 02:36:25 1998 Received: from access4.digex.net (qlYBsVTekvXHY@access4.digex.net [205.197.245.195]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id CAA09994 for ; Fri, 15 May 1998 02:36:23 +0200 Received: from localhost (rinehuls@localhost) by access4.digex.net (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id QAA24751; Thu, 14 May 1998 16:49:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 16:49:44 -0400 (EDT) From: "william c. rinehuls" To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk cc: keith brannon Subject: SC22 N2716 - Disposition of Comments Report for 10514-3 - Object Oriented Modula-2 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 N2716 TITLE: Disposition of Comments Report for DIS 10514-3: Information technology - Programming languages - Modula-2, Part 3: Object Oriented Modula-2 DATE ASSIGNED: 1998-05-14 SOURCE: Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: Disposition of Comments Report PROJECT NUMBER: JTC 1.22.18.02 STATUS: N/A ACTION IDENTIFIER: FYI DUE DATE: N/A DISTRIBUTION: Text CROSS REFERENCE: SC22 N2614 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 on DIS 10514-3 (Information technology - Programming languages - Modula-2, Part 3: Object Oriented Modula-2) Status: This document constitutes the responses to comments generated in the final round of voting on IS 10514-3 Summary: The IS for object oriented extensions to Modula-2 generated a number of comments during the second voting cycle. The purpose of this paper is to allow WG13 to respond to the National Bodies. Format: The comments from the national bodies have been reproduced exactly as passed to the author and these have been interspersed with the suggested responses. In the case of the United States comments, numbering has been added. Germany: DIN votes YES with the following (editorial) comments: a) Table of contents: Fix the page nbrs (starting with section 2, they begin to diverge by an increasing amount of up to 5 pages). Response: The project editor has made this correction. b) Table of contents: Line "Annex B: Changes to the Syntax of the Base "Language" (informative)" [= add "Language" after "Base"] Response: The project editor has made this correction. c) section "4.6 Errors": change the NOTE to read as follows: "The intent of this provision is to allow a version of Modula-2 to support _e.g._ both object oriented and generic _(see ISO 10514-2)_." [= replace "say" by "e.g." and delete "if a standard ... were ... adopted"] Reason: Documents that have reached DIS level may be referenced directly. Response: The project editor has made this correction, but spelling out "for example". d) section "6.1.2 Class Declaration", subsection "Declaration Semantics", 2nd line: Add a period (".") between "class type" and "As classes". Response: The project editor has made this correction. e) section "6.1.7 Class Components", subsection "Declaration Semantics", 4th line: Add a period (".") after "object". Response: The project editor has made this correction. f) section "6.1.8 Overridden Methods", subsection "Static Semantics", 2nd paragraph, 2nd line: "... will result in _a_ compilation error." [= "a" instead of "an"] Response: The project editor has made this correction. g) section "6.1.10 Destructor", subsection "Dynamic Semantics", 3rd line from bottom: Add a period (".") after "superclass". Response: The project editor has made this correction. h) section "6.7 Garbage Collection", NOTE 3: "... does not provide a means _(for a user of an implementation)_ to replace ..." [= add the text in parentheses to clarify who cannot change the storage management scheme]. Response: The project editor has made this correction. i) section "6.8.7 Environment", 3rd line: "This type structure Class-structure ..." [= add a blank before "Class-structure"] Response: The project editor has made this correction. j) section "7.1.3 Aggregation of the Exceptions of the Language Extensions", 2nd line from bottom: "NOTE: A call to an abstract method _can_ only occur ..." [= replace "may" by "can" to avoid the ISO meaning of "may"] Response: The project editor has made this correction. k) Annex C, entry "Ancestor", 2nd line: "... the parent class), that ..." [= switch "," and ")"] Response: The project editor has made this correction. l) Annex C, entry "Reveal": "To make a component of a class public" [= delete "is" before "public"] Response: The project editor has made this correction. m) Annex "D6 Constructor and Destructor", 4th line: "attribute1 := starting;" [instead of "attribute := 0", as 'attribute1' is not of type INTEGER]. Response: The project editor has made this correction. n) Annex "D7 Type Inquiries", 5th line: IF ISMEMBER(draw[i], ...) ["draw[i]" instead of "draw", as the whole ARRAY cannot be an argument to ISMEMBER] Response: The project editor has made this correction. o) Annex "D9 Coroutines and Garbage Collection": Fix the spelling of "Main" (upcase) in the TRANSFER statement of procedure "P", and of "Workspace" (upcase) in the DISPOSE statement at the end of "ModuleX". Response: The project editor has made these corrections. p) Annex "E Finalization Order": Add a line of "..." between "CLASS Class1;" and "END Class1" in "UNSAFEGUARDED IMPLEMENTATION MODULE A;" [as "Meth1" is not an abstract method, its declaration must appear here!] Response: The project editor has made this correction. q) Annex "E Finalization Order", 2nd last paragraph, 2nd line from bottom: "... and thus makes a call to 'B.Proc' which _must_ not be called after ..." [= replace "has" by "must"] Response: The project editor has made this correction. r) Annex "F Participating Individuals and Organisations": Fix the font of the word "Organisations" in the headline, and fix the spelling of "Germany" next to the name of Elmar Henne. Response: The project editor has made these corrections. Japan Japanese National Body does not find any interest in standardization of the proposed subject, and has consistently shown its position in JTC1 ReEngineering discussions as well as in project reviews of SC22. Japanese National Body, therefore, has no groups organized to review the proposal from the technical points and abstains on this matter. Response: No substantive issues are raised in this comment. United States As the USNB stated in its response to the CD 10514-3 on this project, the USNB believes that the base standard ISO/IEC 10514 is badly flawed and believes that there is no point in developing extensions to that document. Response: As stated in the responses to comments on the base standard, and also in response to an identical comment on two previous versions of this proposal, WG13 believes the base standard is not flawed. Thus, WG13 believes that it is appropriate to consider extensions to the base standard. The current comment does not identify any specific new issues not already dealt with in the responses to comments on the base standard and that require a new response. ______________________ end of SC22 N2716 _______________________________