J3 01-170 To: J3 From: /interop Date: 20 March 2001 Subject: Unneeded TYPEALIAS constraint References: 98-240r1, 99-102 At meeting 155, the DATA subgroup asked about the third constraint of section 4.6 prohibiting deferred or assumed size parameters in the declaration-type-spec of a type alias statement. It was unclear where that constraint came from, as it was not in the original spec and syntax document for type alias. Since that meeting, further investigation shows that the constraint was inserted by the editor when processing the TYPEALIAS edits introduced by paper J3 98-240r1. The editors paper J3 99-102 states I added a constraint that the type-spec not have any deferred or assumed type parameters. Perhaps this is or could be covered elsewhere, but we surely need it somewhere. At the time, no one complained about the addition of this constraint. However, upon reconsidering this, both /data and /interop believe the constraint is unnecessary. The following edit removes the constraint. Edit: [58:6-7] delete