Accredited Standards Committee *	X3, Information Technology

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Doc. No.:	PR/96-028
Reply to:	Lynn Barra at lbarra@itic.nw.dc.us 

X3 Announces an Informal Call for Comments on the 
Working 
Document for Programming Language Smalltalk 

Washington D.C., March 1996 - Accredited Standards Committee X3, 
Information Technology announces an informal call for comments on the 
working document for Programming Language Smalltalk.

Comments should be submitted not later than April 30, 1996.  Comments 
received after the deadline will be reviewed and considered during the 
processing of subsequent drafts (if any).

This working document to be reviewed represents the work to date of X3 
Technical Committee X3J20, Smalltalk.  The main focus of this informal call 
for comments is to solicit substantive/technical comments as opposed to 
editorial comments.

The goal of X3J20 was to produce a written standard for the Smalltalk 
language such that:

working only from the standard, a conforming implementation can be 
produced; 

Smalltalk programs which conform to the standard will have the same 
execution semantics on any conforming implementation; and 

the standard shall be sufficiently complete to allow useful Smalltalk 
programs to be constructed 

This document provides the background on Smalltalk concepts, specifies 
the language syntax and semantics, and specifies the standard class 
library.  The standard does not specify the full range of class libraries.  It 
does provide facilities to create such classes that will work on compliant 
implementations having identical external facilities to support them.

All comments should be submitted directly to the X3J20 technical 
committee via email to x3j20@qks.com.  If you do not have email, 
comments can be sent to the X3J20 chairman, Mr. Yen-Ping Shan, IBM 
Corporation, PO Box 12195, Bldg. 062, RTP, NC  27709.

A call for possible patents and pertinent issues (copyrights, trademarks) is 
also being issued.  Please submit information on these issues to the X3 
Secretariat at 1250 Eye Street NW, Suite 200, Washington DC  20005. 
Email: x3sec@itic.nw.dc.us   FAX:  (202)638-4922.

The working document can be purchased for $30.00 from the Global 
Engineering Documents, 15 Inverness Way East, Englewood, CO 80112, 
1800-854-7179.


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