Rick Debay wrote:

>> ... yes, it violates the standard, and yes, sooner or
>>later it will get fixed,but absent serious funding,
>>the time scale is years rather than months.
>
> Is it very difficult to fix? I would think that a syntatically correct
> statement that returns incorrect results would be a priority.
>

Yes it is difficult to fix and the fix may (probably will) make some
existing programs behave differently.


Regards,


Ann