Tabled Issues Tabled issues are issues that the ANSI Ad Hoc Group has discussed and decided not to consider further until some specific time in the future.
Some communities advocate higher-order expressiveness.
Others think that even first-order expressiveness is too great. The Interlingua Committee on three separate occasions addressed this issue and three times voted for first-order expressiveness. The X3T2 Ad Hoc Group on KIF also addressed this issue and voted for first-order expressiveness. On preliminary examination, it was decided that a single type of variable would suffice and that support for second-order would take the form of fixed meaning for appropriate type relations. The Ad Hoc Group tabled further discussion of this issue until a committee draft of the first-order version is completed and approved.