From J.Reid@letterbox.rl.ac.uk Tue Sep 7 18:42:53 1993 Received: from ib.rl.ac.uk by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA10988 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Tue, 7 Sep 1993 18:42:53 +0200 Received: from letterbox.rl.ac.uk by ib.rl.ac.uk (IBM VM SMTP V2R1) with TCP; Tue, 07 Sep 93 17:43:27 BST Received: from numerical.cc.rl.ac.uk by letterbox.rl.ac.uk with SMTP (PP) id <13224-0@letterbox.rl.ac.uk>; Tue, 7 Sep 1993 17:44:14 +0100 Received: from jkr.cc.rl.ac.uk by numerical.cc.rl.ac.uk (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05515; Tue, 7 Sep 93 17:43:33 BST Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 17:43:33 BST From: jkr@letterbox.rl.ac.uk (John Reid) Message-Id: <9309071643.AA05515@numerical.cc.rl.ac.uk> To: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk Subject: Varying strings vote X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 In view of Lawrie's response to my public vote, I have decided to withdraw my requested change of name of CHAR to CHARACTER. I confess to not appreciating just how hot a potato this one obviously is. I am sending a revised vote to Jeanne. My other technical comments are minor, and Lawrie does not disagree with them. Perhaps they are really editorial. I called them technical since they could affect implementations. I do not want to discuss the details of the edits here. I would not want to insist on all my suggestions being implemented. However, implementing a significant proportion of them is more than is reasonable during the DIS stage, and would lead to a much better document (in my opinion). So my vote is still NO. I hope that it will be regarded as a 'friendly' NO. I just feel that another editorial revision is needed to implement the decision to use the 1539 format to full advantage. John Reid.