Re: Host association in interface

From: Dan Nagle (dnagle_at_erols.com)
Date: 11/26/03 

Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 06:48:38 -0500

Hello,

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 19:49:24 GMT, "James Giles"
<jamesgiles@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

<snip>
>
>Also, the committee is doing language design, rather than standardizing
>common practice. That means that no one, not even the promoter of the
>feature, actually has any hands-on experience using it. And certainly,
>no one has any idea how the general users of the language will deal
>with it.

OTOH, if there's enough demand or the feature solves a problem
needing solution, vendors have been known to implement the feature
before the language reaches CD. (Of course, then the vendor is
reluctant to remove the feature if J3 does, BTAM.)

Al least some revision based on feedback is possible.

<snip> 

-- 
Cheers!
Dan Nagle
Purple Sage Computing Solutions, Inc.

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