[ANSI-Smalltalk] What's in a name?

[Andres Valloud]

I have some preference for the plural name as well.  Hopefully we can
resolve this one quickly :).

Andres.

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 3:22 AM, Bruce Badger <bwbadger at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 22/02/2008, Steve Wart <steve.wart at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It also makes more sense if instead of one monolithic standard we prefer
> > different standards documents for different parts of Smalltalk.
>
> I expect that, following Paolo's proposed process, we will produce
> many RFC-like specifications.  I hope that the formal ANSI work will
> be substantially based on the work that we do using our open and
> transparent process, but I don't expect the ANSI project to be able to
> absorb all of the things we have specified as soon as we produce it,
> and some specifications may be considered to go beyond what ought be
> included in a formal standard and so may never make it into the formal
> ANSI standard ... but they are still valuable.
>
> In short I think we'll have quite a few bits and pieces over time that
> will all funnel into something we might call "a standard" (singular),
> but at any one time I suspect that we will have many active bits.
>
> ... so I like "Smalltalk Standards Project" (plural).
>
> FWIW.
>
> Shall we have a vote? :-)
>
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