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[Steve Lionel]

On 8/8/2023 7:18 PM, Van Snyder via J3 wrote:
>
> Every Ada standard has always had paragraph numbers. Do they have a 
> blanket exemption, or do they have to beg permission every time too?
>
All the previous Fortran standards have had paragraph numbers as well. 
This is a recent (this year) pronouncement from ISO, so, yes, absent any 
change in the rules, Ada would need to request permission to include 
paragraph numbers. More, I was told earlier that ISO might grant 
paragraph numbers for a DIS, but not for the published standard. I think 
that many of the ISO editorial rules (some not written down) were 
developed with the notion that ISO standards are relatively small, which 
of course is not the case for programming languages.

Steve