Re: Parenthesized Target Notation (was: Partial retraction)

On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 07:52:10PM +0200, Lothar Scholz wrote:
> 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.

Thanks.  My source must have been misinformed.

-- hendrik

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