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- From: walterm@hprctbs3.rose.hp.com (Walter Murray)
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- Subject: Re: Perhaps it's time the C community *did* something about bad books.
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- Date: 3 Feb 1996 09:07:49 -0600
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- Clive D.W. Feather (clive@stdc.demon.co.uk) wrote:
-
- : Unfortunately, the "nearly" does not only mean the missing page of the
- : Standard that's been mentioned, but also at least one significant dot.
-
- Well, if you're talking about the dot missing from the end of the second
- production for fractional-constant in the syntax for floating constants in
- subclause 6.1.3.1, we can't blame Schildt or his publisher for that. It's
- not in the standard, either. At least it's not in the copy of
- ANSI/ISO 9899-1990 that I purchased from ANSI. It does appear in
- Annex B, but that's not part of the standard, of course.
-
- Has the proper procedure been followed to report and correct this
- typo in the ANSI version of the ISO standard?
-
- Walter
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