Re: NaI's as decorated empty sets
Arnold Neumaier wrote:
> The standard should be silent about how things are actually
> represented, and only specify the effect of operations on
> the representations (whatever they are).
Except for interchange formats -- if we want to deal with that.
(We might however decide that the only defined interchange
format for intervals is textual representation, thus avoiding
encoding issues completely. Yet a large part of the success
of 754 is that bit patterns of interchange formats HAVE been
defined, with only a few remaining issues such as NaN payloads
and, of course, Endianness issues that affect other types as
well, and are thus in a different category.)
Michel.
---Sent: 2009-09-09 10:29:21 UTC