Interesting PR comment

[Bryan Aupperle <aupperle@us.ibm.com>]

One of the PR comments (editorial) against
the C++ spec (made by a TAB member) was:

Moreover, the use of "following," or "above,"
or "below," creates 
ambiguity about which "snippet" or "code extract" is
being described. 
The better practice would be to number all of them and then make 
specific reference to those numbered (suggest) "code examples".

Note that the use of indirect and ambiguous references limits the 
utility of the final version as others cannot make clear references to
the "code examples" either in texts, tutorials, manuals or other
materials.

One could argue that the use of line numbers makes precise citation 
possible, if awkward, but the ambiguity of internal referencing remains.

This same comment could be made for
a number of other SCA specs. So I thought I would pass it along.

The C/C++ TC is taking the approach
of captioning snippets, tables, and figures and using explicit cross-references
in the running text.

Bryan Aupperle, Ph.D.
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