(j3.2006) Storage association

[Robert Corbett]

I did not suggest a change to the standard.  I said that if sequence 
types had been deleted from the standard, then the change Van proposed 
might be OK.  That is not a call for deleting sequence types from the 
language.

Bob Corbett

On 9/7/2016 12:08 AM, Van Snyder wrote:
> If we change the description in 4.5.2.3 of 16-007r1 as Bob suggests, 
> and describe the form of storage association for character arguments 
> as sequence association (which it is), can we print all of the storage 
> association material in obsolescent font? On Wed, 2016-09-07 at 00:03 
> -0700, Robert Corbett wrote:
>> On 9/2/2016 11:06 AM, Van Snyder wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2016-09-02 at 03:33 -0700, Robert Corbett wrote:
>>>> On 9/2/2016 12:36 AM, Van Snyder wrote:
>>>>> Is there a way to establish storage association other than by 
>>>>> equivalence, common, or entry? 
>>>> Yes. See, for example, paragraph 8 of Subclause 16.5.3.4 of 16-007r1. 
>>> Before having this, I though all of the material on storage 
>>> association and storage sequence could be printed in obsolescent 
>>> font. Now it seems that only most of it can be printed in 
>>> obsolescent font. For example, 19.5.3.2p2(1,2,6-8), and maybe 
>>> 19.5.3.2p2(5), could be printed in obsolescent font. 
>> I shall assume Clause 19 is the same as Clause 16. I might agree with 
>> you if sequence types had been deleted from the standard. The second 
>> sentence of paragraph 1 of Subclause 4.5.2.3 of 16-007r1 states The 
>> order of the component definitions in a sequence type specifies a 
>> storage sequence for objects of that type. I think it would be 
>> preferable to say it specifies "the" storage sequence for objects of 
>> that type, because I do not think the text anticipates there being 
>> more than one storage sequence. Bob Corbett 
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