CASL Design Proposal v0.96; Note S-1; Meetings in Tarquinia

[pdmosses@brics.dk]

To all CoFI Participants:

Here is the latest CoFI news - see the home page for links and further
details.

29 April 1997:

     Following intense working meetings in Paris and Lille earlier this
     month, the remaining questions and doubts about the Tentative Design of
     CASL appear to have been resolved. The Language Summary has now been
     revised to reflect the required changes to the abstract syntax and its
     intended semantics. The current version, 0.96, is a draft of the CASL
     DESIGN PROPOSAL that is to be submitted to IFIP WG 1.3 by mid-May.

     It is intended that the final proposal will not differ much from this
     draft, so please would ALL CoFI PARTICIPANTS--as well as anyone else
     who might be interested in the design of CASL--take a close look at it
     straight away, and report any mistakes or inconsistencies that you
     notice, as well as pointing out any parts that still need further
     clarification (bearing in mind the informal nature of such a summary).
     All comments on the Proposed Design of CASL, and on the Design Proposal
     itself, should be sent to the CoFI Language Design mailing list
     (cofi-language@brics.dk). 

     *** DEADLINE for comments: Monday, 12 May, 1997! ***

29 April 1997:

     An ANNOTATED VERSION of the CASL Tentative Design Language Summary,
     with questions and doubts AND THEIR SUGGESTED RESOLUTION, has been
     produced by the Semantics task group, and made available as CoFI Note
     S-1. (This is version 1.3 of Note S-1; the version previously announced
     here had the questions and doubts, but was lacking their resolution...)

29 April 1997:

     MEETINGS of the CoFI METHODOLOGY and REACTIVE SYSTEMS task groups (at
     least) will be held at Tarquinia, 31 May and 1 June 1997, prior to the
     IFIP WG 1.3 meeting and WADT'97. The schedule will be announced later
     this week.

...

Sorry for not having been able to get these things ready more quickly
after getting back from TAPSOFT - I've been involved in a lot of
urgent local administrative meetings.

Best regards to all, and hoping to see many of you at the meetings in
Tarquinia! 

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