Russ Whitaker wrote:

Does the Standards Committiee still exist?

I think the members meet at irregular time intervals. Some (or at least one) of them is reading c.l.p.a-i, so you might want to post there...

It would be nice to start the ball rolling tward a rewrite, even if nothing more than a conversion into real english.

Unlikely. However, be invited to help improving the GPC documentation where real English descriptions of this and many other features are urgently needed.

Frank