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Drastic revisions in draft 1.6.0
David Hough wrote:
Hence the proposal for drastic simplification in
http://754r.ucbtest.org/msc-ballots/91.pdf
Earlier he also submitted drastic rewrites of some other sections,
notably clauses 3 (formats) and 10 (expression evaluation). Although
these are definite improvements, and I agree with many of the actual
proposed changes, I think it is too late for drastic surgery if we
ever want this standard to come out. Let's not even think about the
possibility of an is754version2009, please!
What we should do at this point is try very hard to fix mistakes in
the current draft, perhaps to add a clarification sentence here or
there, and possibly to delete troubled subsections -- but not to
rewrite entire clauses which would then have to be read and commented
on by yet another round of ballotting.
I think today is the deadline for casting ballots on 1.6.0.
It is tomorrow, Saturday Feb 2, 23:59 EST (9pm PST, or very early
Sunday morning in Europe).
Michel.
Sent: 2008-02-01 17:50:39 UTC