M0008.02_Exception_Handling YES
My vote is YES.
Having just re-read the motion, I am impressed with the care it takes
to circumscribe its scope, and to mention which aspects need refinement
through further motions -- so I can offer an unqualified YES here.
A comment on form: it was (as usual) rather painful to extract the text
of the motion from the .pdf file (which happened to have font problems
on my PC, making it almost unprintable). Yet it looks like the original
was in fact a plain-text document before it got mutilated by Acrobat.
The .pdf (even though compressed) was also MUCH larger than the plaintext.
It's a shame that (after PC-DOS) PCs lost the ability to handle plaintext
files well (e.g. print generically on LPT1, edit, grep, etc.). Luckily
our listserv environment is still plaintext, though frightfully many email
systems seem to switch to HTML-only -- and rather gaudy HTML at that. The
MSword .doc format is somewhat better at permitting text to be extracted,
but I'd love to find some general way to convert from plaintext to a
PC-friendly format (needed by most users) and back...
Minor comment on substance: Motion 8 section 3.3 paragraph 3 states that
one cannot extract an interval from a bare decoration. This is generally
true, but SOME decorations should map properly to either bare Empty or
bare Entire. It is however made clear that this level of discussion is
beyond the scope of the motion at hand.
Michel Hack, IBM Research.
(I find it useful to present complete affiliation detail on Votes.)
---Sent: 2009-11-22 18:02:15 UTC