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Re: Draft Standard

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From: John Hughes
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 1991 07:04
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In article <812.27FC4CE9@puddle.fidonet.org> Pat.Terry@p101.f4.n494.z5.fidonet.org (Pat Terry) writes:
>In a message of <Apr 03 14:18>, Rw Hutchinson (1:151/503.4) writes:
>
> >Has anyone any idea when the ISO standard for Modula-2 might become final? 
>
>RSN (grin)
>
> >built-in data type. I recall that complex numbers ARE included in the 
> >draft standard, but that as of now few or no compilers support them. 
>
>They probably aren't in any current implementations, because they were never in 
>M-2.  The next draft proposal will include them, effectively FORTRAN like.
> 

Anyone know what the current rev. level on the draft is? My copy says
something to the effect of 'D106/N336  29 October 1989'.  Is there a
newer revision running about?


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From: jmh@coyote.datalog.com (John Hughes)
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Subject: Re: Draft Standard
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