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From: James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: is STC a good supplementary library for C?
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On 8/4/24 05:26, Mark Summerfield wrote:
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> I've started reading Jacob Navia's CCL document.
> 
> This seems to provide all that I'd need (and more besides).
> 
> However, it appears that this was intended to be added to C's standard 
> library — 12 years ago! The last update was 4 years ago. So it doesn't 
> look to be maintained and presumably was rejected as an addition to the 
> standard library?

I'm not sure, but from past experience with Jacob I suspect that he
never went through the process of making a formal proposal for a change
to the standard. Such proposals can only be made by members of the
committee. Therefore, he would have to either become a member of the
committee, or convince a member of the committee that it would be a good
idea to propose the change for him. As far as I know, he's never
attempted to do either of those things. Therefore, it's probably not
correct to describe his proposal as having been rejected.