Date: Fri Apr 13 2007 - 08:02:52 PDT
Strings are the subject of both 6.14 and 7.6. Although 6.14 is short and most of the discussion is in 7.6, I don't see the justification for placing even the short text of 6.14 in a separate section. The two should be put together. Either in just one section or at most have a two-sentence paragraph in 6.14 as in done with classes in 6.13. I'm also not sure whether strings are better discussed in 6 or in 7. String literals are discussed in 5.9 and 11.6.1. Beyond the basic definition of a string literal, the discussion of what you can do with them is split up between these two sections roughly evenly, with some duplication and overlap. Again, either the two sections should be unified, or 5.9 should be just a minimal definition of string literals, with all further discussion in 11.6.1. 11.6.1 is also a subsection of 11.6, which is Tagged union expressions. That looks like a mistake. 11.6.1 probably should have been 11.7. Finally, I think the discussions of string literals and string types should be much closer to each other, since they are so closely related. Some specific comments: 5.9 starts, 'A string literal is a sequence of characters enclosed by double quotes ("").' The next sentence starts, "A string literal is enclosed in quotes...". This is duplication. 'Nonprinting and other special characters are preceded with a backslash.': Does this mean that it is allowed to enter a nonprinting character directly (preceded by a backslash)? What is included in 'other special characters'? Is the intent of both of these only those characters in Table 5-1? What about other special characters? Following Table 5-1 is "NOTE-the special string characters \v, \f, \a and \x were added in IEEE 1800-2005.". I don't see any need for this note. That is all I have time for today. Shalom Shalom Bresticker Intel Jerusalem LAD DA +972 2 589-6852 +972 54 721-1033 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
