🚀 go-pugleaf

Since many people have requested it, here's the agenda (so far) for the
October 4-7 meeting in Portland of the Joint Pascal Committee (JPC). Items
will be added as needed at the meeting.

                                              Bob Dietrich
                                              Tektronix, Inc.
                                              (503) 629-1727
{ucb or dec}vax!tektronix!robertd             uucp address
robertd@tektronix                             csnet address
robertd.tektronix@rand-relay                  arpa address

Tuesday, October 4, 9 AM

  Opening
  Housekeeping, etc.
  Approval of previous minutes and agenda
  Miscellaneous reports from liasons to other committees
  Report on SC5 meeting in Ottawa

Tuesday afternoon through Thursday afternoon, October 6

  Most of the time should be taken up by the Extensions Task Group (ETG)
  meeting. The ETG agenda is below. Normally JPC meets briefly in the
  morning and afternoon and then recesses while ETG meets.

Friday morning, October 7

  New business
  Future meeting arrangements
  Report from ETG
  Proposed Agenda
  Adjournment (by noon)

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ETG Agenda

  Housekeeping, etc.
  Reports
    Candidate Extension Library
    Work in Progress

  Action Items
    Separate Compilation
    Schemas
    Strings
    Open procedure
    Value Initialization
    Structured Constants
    Exception Handling
    Inverse ord function
    Return statement
    First and Last functions

  Postponed Items
    String functions and procedures
    ReadStr, WriteStr
    File Close
    Constant parameters
    Exit statement
    Dynamic string variables
    Syntax for compiler instructions
    Textual inclusion
    Generalization of program heading
    Complex numbers

  New Items
    Priority of work
    By clause in for statement
    Data Abstraction
    Program listing control pragma
    Error check suppression
  
  New Business
  
  Tabled Extension Proposals
    Set extensions
    Real-time multitasking
    End-of-page processing
    Minimum set requirements

  Adjournment