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Just in case I didn't post the "final" (for the moment) status on what happened
with OO COBOL Collection Classes, I thought I would post it now.

The "end" results are:

1) The OO Collection Classes Technical Report (TR) passed its ISO ballot.
Direction has been made to make some MINOR editorial (mostly) changes - but it
should be published relatively soon. The version that was balloted on can be
viewed online at (down-loaded from);
http://www.yqcomputer.com/

2) At its most recent WG4 meeting, direction was taken to *NOT* include this
facility in the draft Standard currently under devlopment. Instead, it is
intended to be "maintained" as a TR until (if ever) it is "widely implemented"

3) Many of those implementers who have current OO COBOL implementations
- have their own (non-Standard/TR conforming) Class libraries
and/or
- have documented acces to C++, C#, and/or Java class libraries from COBOL

4) I have not PERSONALLY heard of ny implementations "announced" (much less
availabvle) that actually conform to the ISO TR. My *perception* is that this
is viewed as "too late" and that most OO COBOL users will use those libraries
available from other OO languages.


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Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com