Frank Heckenbach wrote:
After reading this discussion, I fear we'll have to keep the ballast of redundant options. That'll teach me not to add any redundant features, unless required for compatibility reasons ...
Some comments, anyway.
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Another course, which I am sure you will not like :-) would be to make the default ISO7185-0, and use directives to expand that. However I recognize that practically noone will agree with me.
At any rate, I feel that gpc has been around too long to change such fundamental directives. I have no problem with discouraging its use.
In some ways this reminds me of the arguments that originally led to the -0 and -1 forms of the standard, which were much more heated, and delayed its release for a long time. The only deviation from J&W permitted by a large faction was specifying parameters of procedural parameters. That group considered conformal arrays an unwarranted extension.