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- From: Norbert Schlenker <nfs@Princeton.EDU>
-
- In the mail today, I received a short excerpt out of draft 9 of the
- P1003.2 (proposed) standard. Taking a look at a random page, I came
- across the description of fold(1). It's hardly an important utility,
- but it is at least non-trivial. Thinking a little about how it
- could be implemented, I quickly decided that it cannot be done
- correctly on machines with finite amounts of memory, because of an
- error in specification (details on request).
-
- As I don't have the entire draft, I don't know how to register an
- objection -- or at least a request for clarification. Could someone
- tell me how I can do this?
-
- Norbert
-
- P.S. I hope the fold specification is not indicative of the rest of
- the standard.
-
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 20, Number 127
-
-