Re: New Annotations

From: Ben Pfaff (blp_at_cs.stanford.edu)
Date: 09/16/04


Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 17:49:02 -0700

Derrick Coetzee <dcnews@moonflare.com> writes:

> It occurred to me that, although we all know Schildt's commentary on
> the ANSI C standard is useless, perhaps a free document much like it
> could be made by the community. Contributors could make corrections to
> the inevitable errors and confusing statements that would arise. While
> it's quite useless without the standard itself, it could be read along
> with it, as well as link (or even show in a frame alongside it)
> corresponding portions of the Draft and Rationale. What do you guys
> think of this idea?

It seems like a good idea, and in fact I at one point started in
on a project to do this myself. However, it's an enormous amount
of work to track down all the references and make sure that
everything you write is correct.

-- 
"This is a wonderful answer.
 It's off-topic, it's incorrect, and it doesn't answer the question."
--Richard Heathfield


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