> PE> So, resorting to the ISO
 > PE> standard (did you know you can buy this for about $70, and it is
 > PE> an EXCELLENT reference, a must for every C programmer)

 > how long before they print a new one? I'm not blowing seventy bucks
 > only to find a new version has just appeared and I can burn the old
 > one. And I'd need to get another one for C++, too (there seems to
 > be an ANSI standard for C++ at last)

Actually, you've got this backwards. There are only draft standards for the
C++ language. Most of the language sematics are fairly stable; most of the
work now is in standardising class libraries.

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