Re[2]: Parenthesized Target Notation (was: Partial retraction)

Lothar Scholz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.eiffel.smalleiffel
Organization Scriptolutions
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello Hendrik,

Thursday, May 5, 2005, 6:22:34 PM, you wrote:

HB> On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 11:17:06AM +0100, Roger Browne wrote:
>> Dominique Colnet wrote:
>> 
>> > ECMA ... should also invent a new name for their new language
>> > in order to avoid possible confusion in the futur.
>> 
>> Of course.
>> 
>> And the new name is ... "ECMA Eiffel"!

HB> I heard once that there was a law in Germany that if there
HB> is a standard covering something, and you do that something,
HB> you are required to follow the standard.  Will Germans
HB> be required to follow the standard whether it makes sense or not?
HB> If this is the case, it provides incentive for keeping
HB> stupidities out of the ECMA standard, instead of just ignoring it.

There is nothing like this. It may be an internal rule for government
projects but i really doubt this too. The only standard enforcing law
is about the metric system. If you write something like "15 inch display"
and don't add use the 'cm' value you can (and will) be sued.

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